Christian Merkl
Research Fellow
Research Interests
Christian Merkl is professor of macroeconomics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and research professor at the Institute for Employment Research. From 2007 to 2010 he was assistant professor at the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, and the head of the research group Monetary Policy at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He obtained his PhD from the University of Kiel in May 2007. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2007. Christian Merkl's research interests include labor economics, macroeconomics and the intersection of the two fields.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18162
Cesar Barreto, Christian Merkl
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2025, 156, 103845
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16686
published in: Economic Journal, 136 (673), 2026, 97–124
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15714
Christian Merkl, Timo Sauerbier
revised version published in: IMF Economic Review, 2024, 72, 393-440
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13678
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101939
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12260
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 127, 2021, 104114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11858
published in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 78, 192-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11600
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, 94, 142-189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11314
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26, 135-142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11063
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2021, 117, 781-797
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11051
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104636
