home chair Jürgen Antony

Dr. Jürgen Antony

Phone: +31 (0)70 3383-451

Email: juergen.antony@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de

Curriculum Vitae

• 1993 - 1995 Deutsche Bank AG Augsburg
• 1995 - 2000 Student of Economics at the Universities of Regensburg and Maastricht
• 2001 - 2002 Reasearch assistant at Darmstadt University of Technology - Chair of Prof. Dr. Horst Entorf
• 2002 - 2006 Research assistant - Chair of Prof. Dr. Alfred Maußner
• August 2006 Dissertation (Dr. rer. pol., comparable to Ph.D. in economics) at the University of Augsburg. Thesis on "Scale Effects and Labor Productivity"
• 2006 - 2008 Post-doc at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Alfred Maußner
• July 2011 Habilitation at the University of Augsburg, Department of Economics
• 2008 - 2013 CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
• from August 2013 Pforzheim University, Professor of Economics

Publications

Growth and productivity

• Firm Heterogeneity, Credit Constraints, and Endogenous Growth (with Torben Klarl and Alfred Maußner). Journal of Economics, 2012, 105, 199-224.
• Technology Flows between Sectors and their Impact on Large-Scale Firms (with Thomas Grebel). Applied Economics, 2012, 44, 2637-2651.
• A Note on an Extension of a Class of Solutions to Dynamic Programming Problems arising in Economic Growth (with Alfred Maußner). Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2012, 16, 472-476.
• Non-Renewable Resources, Endogenous Technical Change, and Sustainable Growth. International Journal of Sustainable Economy, 2, 2010, 365-381.
• Scale Effects and Labor Productivity. Dissertation, University of Augsburg, 2006 (pdf).

Production theory

• A Normalized Spence-Dixit-Stiglitz Index. Applied Economics Research Bulletin, forthcoming.
• A Class of Changing Elasticity of Substitution Production Functions. Journal of Economics, 100, 2010, 165-183.
• Capital/Labor Substitution, Capital Deepening, and FDI. Journal of Macroeconomics, 31, 2009, 699-707.
• A Dual Elasticity of Substitution Production Function with an Application to Cross Country Inequality. Economics Letters, 102, 2009, 10-12.
• Comment on James Smith: That Elusive Elasicity and the Ubiquitous Bias: Is Panel Data a Panacea? Journal of Macroeconomics,  30, 2008,  780-782.

Miscellaneous

• Nederlandse zakelijke dienstverleners onvoldoende geprikkeld (with H. van der Wiel and F. Kuypers). CPB Policy Brief, 2012/03.
• Welke lessen leert de Grote Recessie ons voor macromodellen? (with P. Broer and C. Teulings), KVS preadvizen 2011, 2011, SDU Den Haag, 75-104.
• Financial transaction tax: review and assessment (with M. Bijlsma, A. Elbourne, M. Lever and G. Swart), CPB Discussion Paper, 2012, No. 202.
• Linkages between the Financial and the Real Sector of the Economy: A Literature Survey (with P. Broer). CPB Document, 2010, No. 216.
• Zur Gültigkeit der Abschreckung im Sinne der ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität: Grundzüge einer Meta-Studie (with Horst Entorf),  in: H.-J. Albrecht und H. Entorf (eds): Kriminalität, Ökonomie und Europäischer Sozialstaat. Physica, Heidelberg, 2003.

Conference contributions

• Directed Sector and Skill-Specific Technological Change: The Development of Wages for the High and Low Skilled. EEA 2003 Stockholm, 20.-24. August 2002.
• Scale Effects, Inequality, and Unemployment in a Growth Model. Economic Growth and Distribution: On the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Lucca 16.-18.6.2004 and Workshop of the Herbert Giersch Stiftung, Magdeburg 27.-29.10.2004
• Weak Scale Effects in Growth Models. EEA 2005, 24.-27.8.2005 Amsterdam, and anual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), 27.-30.9.2005 Bonn.
• Diffusion of Scale Effects between European and US Regions. EEA 2006, 24.-28.8.2006 Wien, and 2nd German Macro Workshop, 21./22.7.2006 Frankfurt/Main.
• Comment on "The Elusive Elasticity and the ubiquitous Bias: Is Panal Data a Panacea?" by James Smith. CES Conference, 20.-22.10.2006 Eltville.
• New Combinations and Growth. EEA 2007, 27.-31.8.2007 Budapest, and anual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association, 9.-12.10.2007 München.
• Technology Flows between Sectors and their Impact on Large-Scale Firms (mit T. Grebel). EARIE, 4.-6.9.2008 Toulouse, und EEA, 27.-31.8.2008 Mailand.
• Capital/Labor Substitution, Capital Deepening, and FDI. Jahrestagung des Verein für Socialpolitik,23.-26.9.2008 Graz.
• A Class of Changing Elasticity of Substitution Production Functions. Jahrestagung des Verein für Socialpolitik, 8.-11.9.2009 Magdeburg.
• Firm Heterogeneity, Credit Constraints, and Endogenous Growth (with Torben Klarl and Alfred Maußner). DEGIT XV, 3.-4.9.2010 Frankfurt/Main.
• Technical Change and the Elasticity of Factor Substitution, EEA, 27.-31.8.2012, Malaga.

Research interests

• Substitutability of Capital and Labor
• Production Theory
• Endogenous Growth
• Financial Markets
• Wages and technical Change