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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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Björn Thor Arnarson @bjorci.bsky.social · Aug 15
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

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Carl-Johan Dalgaard @cjdalgaard.bsky.social · Mar 4
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
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Politiken @politiken.dk · Mar 4
De økonomiske vismænd: Prisen for havudsigt må fordeles anderledes, og det kan blive ubehageligt for nogle boligejere
Prisen for at bygge tæt på havet og dermed risikere oversvømmelse bør fordeles mere rimeligt. Lige nu subsidierer de mindre velstående de mere velstående og skaber et incitament til at bygge mere og mere ved kysterne trods klimaforandringerne.
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Jakob Roland Munch @jrmunch.bsky.social · Feb 15
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...

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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...
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jan 27
Forthcoming in the AER: "Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability" by Anders Humlum, Jakob R. Munch, and Pernille Plato. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability
(Forthcoming Article) - We provide the first evidence on how workers invest in human capital after losing ability. Using quasi-random work accidents in Danish administrative data, we find that workers...
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De Økonomiske Råds sekretariat @dorssekretariat.bsky.social · Dec 10
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...
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Jakob Roland Munch @jrmunch.bsky.social · Nov 21
David Deming wrote a fine blog post about our results last year:

forklightning.substack.com/p/can-we-ret...
Can we retrain older workers?
You can, in fact, teach an old dog new tricks
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Jakob Roland Munch @jrmunch.bsky.social · Nov 21
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...
changing_tracks_nov24.pdf
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