Claus Thustrup Kreiner

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Claus Thustrup Kreiner is professor and leader of the Economic Policy Research Unit at the University of Copenhagen. His main research area is Public Economics and he is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. His recent publications include articles in Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy dealing with optimal income tax theory for couples, effects of tax enforcement on tax compliance behavior, measurement of tax avoidence responses to tax reform and effects of taxation on labor mobility. Two of these studies have had a direct impact on tax laws and tax enforcement policy in Denmark. Claus Thustrup Kreiner was member of the latest Danish tax commission 2008-2009 and co-chairman of the Danish Economic Council 2010-2014 but is now back in research full time.

Research groups

EPRU
WEST

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Personal Details

Born November 1969 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Married to Signe Thustrup Kreiner. Two children: Mads & Marie

Change of last name in Spring 2000 from Hansen to Kreiner

Education

PhD in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1998

Visiting PhD student, University of York, 1996

MSc in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1994

BSc in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1991

Professional Experience (after PhD)

Director, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), 2005-

Director, WEST, a Center of Research Excellence of the University of Copenhagen, 2011-2013

Professor, University of Copenhagen, 2005-

Visiting Scholar, Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at UC Berkeley, 2003

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, 1999-2004

Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, 1997-1999

Research Networks

Research fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, 2009-

Research fellow, CESifo research network, München, 2000-

Editorial Work

Co-Editor, Journal of Public Economics, 2014-

Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economics, 2009-2014

Associate Editor, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013-

Board of Editors, Danish Journal of Economics (Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift), 2000-

Refereeing in 2015: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Policy Advice

Co-chairman of the Danish Economic Council (Vismand), 2010-2014

Expert witness at hearing in the Danish parliament about taxation and labor supply, 2014

Member of the Danish Tax Commission, 2008-2009

Deputy Member, The Danish Competition Council, 2009

Research Grants and Awards

Grant from the University of Copenhagen, Program of excellence, Economic Policy in the Modern Welfare State, 2008‐2013.

Grant from the International Growth Center (IGC), 2009

Grant from the Danish Social Science Research Council, 2003, 2006, 2009

EPRU-Network Research Grants, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013

The Invisible Hand Award (best teacher award granted by the Society of Social Economics), 2006

Grant from the Danish National Research Foundation (received in cooperation with other EPRU members), 1998-2003

Best Teacher Award (granted by the Study Board of Economics at University of Copenhagen), 2002

The Invisible Hand Award (best teacher award granted by the Society of Social Economics), 2001

Zeuthen Award (granted to the best Master Thesis in Economics at University of Copenhagen), 1994

Primary fields of research

Public Economics

Teaching

Current teaching: Principles of Economics (first year undergraduate) and Public Economics (third year undergraduate and graduate). Main area of supervision: Public Economics.

Current research

Current research projects:

• “Distributional Effects of Bequest” (with Simon Halphen Boserup from Copenhagen and Wojciech Kopczuk from Columbia University). Incomplete working paper. To be presented at the AEA Annual Meeting 2016.
• "Effects of minimum wage rules on youth employment: Danish evidence from monthly employment records" (with Daniel Reck from University of Michigan and Peer Ebbesen Skov from University of Copenhagen). Work-in-progress.
• “Financial Trouble Across Generations: Evidence from the Universe of Personal Loans in Denmark” (with Søren Leth-Petersen and Louise Willerslev-Olsen). Preliminary working paper, November 2015.
• “Born with a silver spoon: Danish Evidence on intergenerational wealth formation from cradle to adulthood" (with Simon Halphen Boserup from Copenhagen and Wojciech Kopczuk from Columbia University). Working paper. March 2015. Revise-and-resubmit at the Economic Journal.
• “Consumption Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy and the Household Price of Liquidity” (with David Dreyer Lassen and Søren Leth-Petersen). Revise-and-resubmit at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
• “Intergenerational Wealth Mobility: Evidence from Danish Wealth Records of Three Generations” (with Simon Halphen Boserup from Copenhagen and Wojciech Kopczuk from Columbia University), Working paper. Presented at the AEA Annual Meeting 2014. Under revision.
• “Baumol's Cost Disease and the Sustainability of the Welfare State” (with Torben M. Andersen). CEPR Discussion Paper no. 9772, December 2013. Revise-and-resubmit at Economica.
• “Tax Reforms and Intertemporal Shifting of Wage Income: Evidence from Danish Monthly Payroll Records.” (with Søren Leth-Petersen and Peer Ebbesen Skov). Forthcoming in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
• "Why Can Modern Governments Tax So Much? An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries" (with Henrik Jacobsen Kleven from LSE and Emmanuel Saez from UC Berkeley). Working Paper, June 2015. Under review.