Department of Economics

Completed externally funded projects

There are always new projects starting - and others coming to an end. On this page we provide an overview of completed externally funded projects.

Energy Social Accounting Matrix for Vietnam (ESAM)

Energy Social Accounting Matrix for Vietnam (ESAM) will together with the Central Institute of Economic Management (CIEM) construct an Energy Social Accounting Matrix for Vietnam to explore the socioeconomic impact of…

Determining the Impact of Religion on the Gender Gap and Conflict Using Natural Experiments

In this project, Jeanet Bentzen focuses on the degree of religious beliefs within religious denominations instead of differences across religious denominations. Jeanet explores religious economics with Sascha Becker, a…

Robust Econometric Methods in Empirical and Quantitative Finance

Rasmus Søndergaard Pedersen develops new improved financial econometric methods. The new methods take the properties heavy-tailedness and time-varying volatility into account with particular attention to the…

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Vocational Education in Vietnam

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Inside the black box of treatment exposure

Studying infant nurse home visiting, this proposal asks: What are the causal effects of treatment intensity (program components, the timing and provider of services) on adult health, educational and labor market…

Labor Market effects of Automation, Offshoring and Multinationals

Labor markets in Denmark and other advanced countries are being reshaped in fundamental ways by structural change. In particular two factors appear to play important roles: Automation and internationalization of firms.…

Skill Formation in the Labor Market for Physicians

This research project will contribute to our understanding of highly specialized workers labor market choices. To what extent do wages, other characteristics about the job or luck shape the decisions? And are there…

Who influences child health?

This project contributes novel insights on how health care professionals—general practitioners —affect children’s healthcare and outcomes.

ORIGENDER - The Origen of Gender Inequality

In ORIGENDER, Jakob Søgaard will advance our knowledge of the role of gender norms in shaping the gender pay gap by answering two key questions: 1) Why are gender roles on the labour market still so traditional,…

Building Resilience to Climate Change in Ethiopia

We will compare and evaluate the drivers of resilience to climate change examining actions taken at the household and village/district level. Moreover, we will analyse the effects of large-scale interventions, including…

Reintegration Through Active Labour Market Reforms (REALM)

REALM will generate new knowledge about labour market reforms and their distributional impacts across gender and ethnic divides, using up-to-date quantitative analytical tools and newly generated data.

Scarcity Strategies for Product Launch - Influencing Observational Learning

This project will examine under what circumstances sellers have a strategic incentive to create shortages intentionally, so as to increase demand for their products.

Socio-Economic Determinants and the Role of Information and Salience in Treatment Choice (ABRSEIST)

Hannes Ulrich is principal investigator in the ERC funded research project aiming to identify and evaluate feasible and effective demand-side policy interventions targeting the relevant decision makers: physicians and…

A GREEN NET NATIONAL PRODUCT FOR DENMARK and THE GREEN REFORM MODEL

Peter Birch Sørensen is lead in the Danish effort to reform economic structures to include also the value of environmental and ecosystem services. The Carlsberg Foundation supports his work with funds for to related…

Price-setting in an Evolving Inflationary Environment

Emiliano Santoro and his project team will examine how firms have adapted their price-setting strategies in the aftermath of the Great Recession

GEM: Generalised Entropy Models for Spatial Choices

With this project we will create a new category of models that can be used for describing a wide range of spatial choice problems in the social sciences.

Theory of the “Bootstrap” in Econometric Models with Time Varying Volatility

Anders Rahbek and his team will provide econometric theory with new innovative bootstrap schemes applied to key econometric models with timevarying volatility. These include studies of bubble formation and dynamics,…

Governance in Unlisted Danish Companies

We develop new knowledge on the economic impact of the different management models in SMEs. We will share the newly obtained knowledge in the form of a toolbox with managers, boards of directors and advisors.

Growth and Development in Tanzania

We improve capacity in policy analysis for Tanzania - strengthening both research and teaching capacity at the department of economics. We create impact on both the academic community and on the country through dialogue…

Taxation of Transactions in Imperfect Financial Markets

With this Sapere Aude Advanced Grant project Peter Norman Sørensen combines models and insights from two fields of Economics to study the rationale for a small tax on transactions in financial markets.

EARN: Economic Assimilation Research Network

Hvilke integrationsindsatser virker? Ved at kombinere detaljeret viden fra praksis med statistiske modeller baseret på hele befolkningen, vil holdet undersøge hvilke integrationsindsatser, der virker, og udbrede best…

FAMBUSS

FAMBUSS: The Impact of Family Assets on Corporate Structures and Outcomes. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.