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Jakob Roland Munch

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Professor of economics, University of Copenhagen. Co-chair at the Danish Economic Councils (“vismand”). https://sites.google.com/view/jakob-roland-munch

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Submit your best papers in international trade to the NOITS conference. The conference is held at the @rockwoolfonden.dk in downtown Copenhagen and aranged in cooperation with the University of Copenhagen. @linnealorentzen.bsky.social @jrmunch.bsky.social

See noits.org for details

15.08.2025 13:53 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Klimatilpasning. Det haster med, at få styr på kystsikringen. Ikke mindst i en tid, hvor staten har nok at bruge penge på. Kronik i @politiken.dk. 👇
#dkpol #dkøko #dkbiz

04.03.2025 18:43 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Do Export Support Programs Affect Prices, Quality, Markups, and Marginal Costs? Evidence From a Natural Policy Experiment Abstract. Firms’ success in international markets depends on their product’s quality, prices, markups, and marginal cost. However, causally identified empirical evidence for the effect of trade polici...

Nyt om eksport i danske virksomheder

Der er en (kausal) positiv effekt af eksportfremme på virksomhedernes eksportomsætning

Vi viser også, at eksportomsætningsgevinsterne mere end dækker omkostningerne forbundet med eksport og eksportfremme...

direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

15.02.2025 00:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is an amazing paper.

Physical injuries induce workers to pursue higher ed retraining --> they end up earning more than they were pre-injury.

Bottom line: Not enough mid-career workers realize they should be re-skilling.

(Feels a little like the Leavitt coin flip paper on status quo bias.)

27.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 88    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 0
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Tak for god debat på dagens møde i Det Miljøøkonomiske Råd.
#dkgreen #dkklima #dkøko #dkpol
Rådsmedlemmernes kommentarer til #vismænd's diskussionsoplæg kan læses her:
dors.dk/vismandsrapp...

10.12.2024 11:51 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Can we retrain older workers? You can, in fact, teach an old dog new tricks

David Deming wrote a fine blog post about our results last year:

forklightning.substack.com/p/can-we-ret...

21.11.2024 07:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
changing_tracks_nov24.pdf

Reskilling moves injured workers from disability benefits to full-time employment. Reskilling subsidies pay for themselves four times over, and current rates of reskilling are substantially below the social optimum.

Paper now conditionally accepted at AER 🎉

drive.google.com/file/d/1NnI9...

21.11.2024 07:41 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

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