Christian Merkl

Research Fellow

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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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.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16686
Gender-Specific Application Behavior, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap
Benjamin Lochner, Christian Merkl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15714
Public Employment Agency Reform, Matching Efficiency, and German Unemployment
Christian Merkl, Timo Sauerbier
revised version published in: IMF Economic Review, 2024, 72, 393-440
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13678
Recruiting Intensity and Hiring Practices: Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Evidence
Benjamin Lochner, Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber, Nicole Gürtzgen
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101939
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12260
Hartz IV and the Decline of German Unemployment: A Macroeconomic Evaluation
Brigitte Hochmuth, Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl, Hermann Gartner
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 127, 2021, 104114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11858
The German Labor Market during the Great Recession: Shocks and Institutions
Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl
published in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 78, 192-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11600
Optimal Fiscal Policy with Labor Selection
Sanjay K. Chugh, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, 94, 142-189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11314
Value Added, Wages, and Labor Market Flows at the Establishment Level
Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26, 135-142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11063
Worker Churn and Employment Growth at the Establishment Level
Rüdiger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Christian Merkl, Stefan Seth, Heiko Stüber, Felix Wellschmied
published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2021, 117, 781-797
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11051
Wage Cyclicalities and Labor Market Dynamics at the Establishment Level: Theory and Evidence
Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104636
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9816
Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market
Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl
published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2022, 73, 103458
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9291
Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection
Sanjay K. Chugh, Christian Merkl
published in: International Economic Review, 2016, 57 (4), 1371–1404.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8890
Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle
Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Christian Merkl
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 940-953
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8515
Revisiting the Matching Function
Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl, Daniela Nordmeier
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016, 69, 350–374.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8252
The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Alessio J. G. Brown, Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 124 (3), 389–391.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8242
Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology
Boris Hirsch, Christian Merkl, Steffen Müller, Claus Schnabel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7475
Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis
Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl
published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 99–122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6294
Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models
Christian Merkl, Thijs van Rens
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 117-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5117
Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States: Any Differences?
Christian Merkl, Dennis Wesselbaum
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (9), 805-808
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4924
Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market: First Results from the Euro Experiment
Christian Merkl, Tom Schmitz
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (1), 44-60
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4849
Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy
Ester Faia, Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl
revised version published as 'Fiscal Stimulus and the Labor Market Policies in Europe' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (3), 483–499
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