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Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou
Research Fellow
Monash University
yves.zenou@monash.edu External Homepage

Yves Zenou, Ph.D., is a Professor of Economics and holds the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). His research is both theoretical and empirical and his interests include: (i) Social interactions and network theory, (ii) Search and matching theory, (iii) Urban economics, (iv) Segregation and discrimination of ethnic minorities, (v) Identity and assimilation of immigrants, (vi) Criminality and (vii) Education.
Yves Zenou is also affiliated to the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN, Stockholm), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn). He is also a visiting professor at the University of Southampton.
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (class for social sciences), SAET Economic Theory Fellow, Fellow of the Spatial Econometrics Association, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Fellow of the Regional Science Association International.
He is currently Associate Editor at Games and Economic Behavior, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, IZA Journal of Migration, and Annals of Economics and Statistics.
He has published his research in different journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of the European Economic Association, Theoretical Economics, Quantitative Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2695
Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities
Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2009, 65 (3), 323-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2613
The Racial Test Score Gap and Parental Involvement in Britain
Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou
published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 102, 49-52
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2608
Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents’ Involvement?
Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou
published as 'Neighborhood Effects and Parental Involvement in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (5), 987 - 1013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2601
Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory
Stephen L. Ross, Yves Zenou
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2008, 38, 498-517
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2051
How Important Is Access to Jobs? Old Question – Improved Answer
Olof Aslund, John Östh, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10(3), 389-422
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2046
Racial Identity and Education
Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou
published in: Social Networks, 2016, 44, 85-94.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1880
Cultural Transmission and Discrimination
Maria Saez-Marti, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 137-146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1861
The Todaro Paradox Revisited
Yves Zenou
revised version published as 'Rural-Urban Migration and Unemployment: Theory and Policy Implications' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (1), 65 - 82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1852
Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market
Harminder Battu, McDonald Mwale, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 643 - 667
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1465
Equilibrium Search Unemployment with Explicit Spatial Frictions
Etienne Wasmer, Yves Zenou
published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (2), 143-165
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