I am a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School.
I am a macroeconomist interested in public economics, labor economics, and inequality. My recent work combines quantitative models with micro data to analyze social-insurance policies, household behavior, and inequality. Earlier, I also worked on monetary policy.
I am affiliated with the Pension Research Centre (PeRCent).
PhD in Economics, since 2019
Copenhagen Business School
MSc in Economics and Finance, 2018
Copenhagen Business School
BSc in Economics, 2015
University of Zurich
joint with Frederik Bjørn Christensen
Abstract: We study retirement reforms that ensure sustainable public finances in the face of population aging. We build a structural life-cycle model with a pension scheme that includes a public pay-as-you-go pillar and a mandatory fully-funded pillar. The two pillars interact through a means-testing mechanism. The higher the fully-funded benefit, the lower the public pay-as-you-go benefit. The interaction allows us to assess a reform in which increases in fully-funded contributions and benefits reduce public pension benefits through means testing. We compare this reform to three alternatives: Increasing the retirement age, cutting public benefits, and increasing taxes to finance growing public pension expenditures. We estimate the model to Danish micro data and find that expanding fully-funded pensions to indirectly lower public pensions yields the highest welfare. Among the remaining reforms, we show that directly lowering public benefits outperforms hiking taxes and increasing the retirement age.
joint with Frederik Bjørn Christensen
Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming
joint with Thomas Nitschka
joint with Frederik Bjørn Christensen
Copenhagen Business School, Full Degree Master, Link to course
Iowa State University, University of Kansas, PhD-level, Link to course
Copenhagen Business School, Msc Advanced Economics and Finance
Copenhagen Business School, Msc Applied Economics and Finance
On my GitHub page, I share lectures and sample code on how to solve and estimate life cycle models with overlapping generations.