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Gerard A. Pfann
Research Fellow

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Pfann Gerard A. Pfann (1959) is professor of econometrics of markets and organizations at Maastricht University. He holds a doctorandus degree (1985) in econometrics from the University of Amsterdam, and a doctorate degree (1989) in quantitative economics from Maastricht University. As a doctorate student Gerard visited the Institute of Economics and Statistics at the University of Oxford, for which he received a Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO) research scholarship. After having finished his graduate studies, Gerard accepted post-graduate research fellowship grants from the European Commission to visit the Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve to visit its Economics Department, as well as from NWO to visit the Institute of Empirical Macroeconomics at the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis. In 1990 Gerard won a five years research fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW Onderzoeker). He then visited the Economics Department of Northwestern University in 1991 and spent the academic year of 1993-1994 as Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor of Econometrics at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. In 1996 Gerard won the NWO PIONIER Research Grant. At the age of 36 he became the youngest professor at Maastricht. In 1997 Gerard founded the Business Investment Research Center. In May 1997 – in order to write his inaugural lecture – as well as the academic year 2000-2001 Gerard visited the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. In the years 2001 through 2003 he acted as the Research Director of the Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, co-founded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, and initiated the Annual Transatlantic Meetings for Labor Economists joint with the Society of Labor Economists. From 2008 through 2011 Gerard acted as the Vice-Dean for Research of the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University, and served as Chair of the Management Team of the Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organizations. In this position he created the Maastricht University Graduate School of Business & Economics. For this he received a block grant from the NWO Graduate Programme.

Gerard Pfann is recipient of the Edmond Hustinx Science Prize and the J. William Fulbright Award. He is the Subject Chair for Business & Economics in the Contents Selection and Advisory Board of SciVerse SCOPUS, is founding editor of the Journal of Empirical Finance, and acted as the Editor-in-Chief of the European Economic Review from 2002 until 2012. During the academic year 2011-2012 Gerard was Visiting Research Fellow at IZA in Bonn and The Warden’s Visitor at Nuffield College of the University of Oxford.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
5982  Zvi Eckstein
Esther Gal-Or
Thorvaldur Gylfason
Jürgen von Hagen
Gerard A. Pfann
A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review
5794  Ben Kriechel
Gerard A. Pfann
Workforce Reorganization and the Worker
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1719-1729)
5359  Magne Krogstad Asphjell
Wilko Letterie
Øivind Anti Nilsen
Gerard A. Pfann
Sequentiality versus Simultaneity: Interrelated Factor Demand
(revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics)
4610  Daniel S. Hamermesh
Gerard A. Pfann
Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
(published as 'Reputation and Earnings: The Roles of Quality and Quantity in Academe' in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (1), 1 - 16)
1132  Sher Verick
Wilko Letterie
Gerard A. Pfann
Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 263-280)
867  Thomas Dohmen
Ben Kriechel
Gerard A. Pfann
Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (2), 193-228)
565  Hans van Kranenburg
Franz C. Palm
Gerard A. Pfann
Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands
(published as 'Exit and Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands' in: Review of Industrial Organization, 2002, 21 (3), 283-303)
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Gerard A. Pfann
Hans van Kranenburg
Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2003, 46 (1), 61-84)
312  Carina Furnée
Marius Kemler
Gerard A. Pfann
The Value of Pain Relief
(published in: De Economist, 2003, 151 (2), 171-192)
308  Gerard A. Pfann
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
(published as 'Two-Sided Learning with Applications to Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 423 - 445)
307  Gerard A. Pfann
Downsizing
(revised version published as 'Downsizing and Heterogeneous Firing Costs' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (1), 158-170)
303  Gerard A. Pfann
Boris F. Blumberg
Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment
201  Thomas Dohmen
Gerard A. Pfann
Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2004, 48 (3), 645-663)
197  Gerard A. Pfann
Options to Quit
(published in: Economics Letters, 2001, 70 (2), 59-265)
 

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