Jan Eeckhout

Jan Eeckhout is ICREA Research Professor of Economics at UPF Barcelona. He has teaching and research interests in macroeconomics, with a special emphasis on the labor market. He studies the macroeconomic implications of market power, as well as the economics of the labor market and cities.

His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Political Economy, and has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the European Research Council. His book The Profit Paradox is published by Princeton University Press, and his work has featured in such media as The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, and Bloomberg. His research has been supported by numerous government grants, including funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the European Research Council (Starting and Advanced Grants), as well as private sources. He has advised over 50 PhD students who have occupied academic positions from Yale to Chicago and from Beijing to Canberra, as well as non-academic positions.

Jan Eeckhout was formerly a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania and at University College London. He has also been the Louis A. Simpson Visiting Professor at Princeton University, as well as holding visiting positions at NYU Stern and MIT. At UPF he has served as chair of the Department of Economics and Business. A past editor of the International Economic Review, he is currently on the editorial boards of the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Economic Theory, and is a past editorial board member of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the European Economic Association, and a member of Academia Europaea. He received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1998.