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Prof. Dr. Jens Krüger
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung
Residenzschloß
Marktplatz 15
64283 Darmstadt

Sprechzeiten
Mittwoch 11:30-12:30 (während der vorlesungsfreien Zeit nach Vereinbarung)

Curriculum Vitae

1990 – 1996 studies of economics at the University of Augsburg
1996 – 2000 research and teaching assistant at the University of Augsburg
1999 PhD from the University of Augsburg
2000 – 2008 research and teaching assistant at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
2006 habilitation at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
2007 – 2008 temporary professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
2008 – 2008 temporary professorship at the Darmstadt University of Technology
since 2009 professor at the Darmstadt University of Technology

Research Interests

• Nonparametric Productivity Measurement
• Applied Econometrics
• Economic Forecasting
• Economics of Innovation
• Industrial Dynamics
• New Growth Theory

Publications

Monographs

• Produktivitäts- und Effizienzanalyse – Der nichtparametrische Ansatz, Berlin u.a. 2007, Springer Verlag. [mit U. Cantner und H. Hanusch] (link)
• Volkswirtschaftslehre 1: Grundlegende Mikro- und Makroökonomik, 5. Auflage, Berlin u.a. 2000, Springer Verlag. [unter Mitarbeit bei H. Hanusch, T. Kuhn und U. Cantner] (link)
• Produktivität und Wachstum im internationalen Vergleich: Theoretische Modelle und empirische Analysen, Lohmar/Köln 2000, Josef Eul Verlag, Reihe: Internationale Wirtschaft, Band 17.

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Long-Run Sectoral Development: Time Series Evidence for the German Economy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, forthcoming 2010. [with A. Dietrich]
• Knowledge Compensation in the German Automobile Industry, Applied Economics, forthcoming 2010. [with U. Cantner and K. von Rhein]
• Inspecting the Poverty-Trap Mechanism: A Quantile Regression Approach, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, vol. 13(3), 2009, article 2. (link)
• Knowledge and Creative Destruction over the Industry Life Cycle: The Case of the German Automobile Industry, Economica, vol. 76(301), 2009, pp. 132-148. [with U. Cantner and K. von Rhein]
• Knowledge, Profitability and Exit of German Car Manufacturing Firms, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, vol. 18(2), 2009, pp. 107-122. [with K. von Rhein]
• The Sources of Aggregate Productivity Growth: US Manufacturing Industries, 1958-1996, Bulletin of Economic Research, vol. 60(4), 2008, pp. 405-427.
• Productivity Dynamics and Structural Change in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 17(4), 2008, pp. 875-902.
• Micro-Heterogeneity and Aggregate Productivity Development in the German Manufacturing Sector: Results from a Decomposition Exercise, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 18(2), 2008, pp. 119-133. [with U. Cantner]
• Capacity Utilization and Technology Shocks in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector, International Review of Applied Economics, vol. 22(3), 2008, pp. 287-298.
• Productivity and Structural Change: A Review of the Literature, Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 22(2), 2008, pp. 330-363.
• Firm Survival in the German Automobile Industry, Empirica, vol. 33(1), 2006, pp. 49-60. [with U. Cantner and K. Dreßler]
• Using the Manufacturing Productivity Distribution to Evaluate Growth Theories, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 17(2), 2006, pp. 248-258.
• Productivity Dynamics Beyond-the-Mean in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: An Application of Quantile Regression, Empirical Economics, vol. 31(1), 2006, pp. 95-111.
• Structural Change in U.S. Manufacturing: Stationarity and Intra-Distributional Changes, Economics Letters, vol. 87(3), 2005, pp. 387-392.
• Twin Peaks in National Income: Parametric and Nonparametric Estimates, Revue Économique, vol. 55(6), 2004, pp. 1127-1144. [with U. Cantner, B. Ebersberger, H. Hanusch and A. Pyka]
• Productivity Transitions in the US Manufacturing Sector, Applied Economics Letters, vol. 11(15), 2004, pp. 935-937.
• Geroski's Stylized Facts and Mobility of Large German Manufacturing Firms, Review of Industrial Organization, vol. 24(3), 2004, pp. 267-283. [with U. Cantner]
• Explaining International Productivity Differences, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, vol. 223(6), 2003, pp. 659-679. [with U. Cantner and H. Hanusch]
• The Global Trends of Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from the Nonparametric Malmquist Index Approach, Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 55(2), 2003, pp. 265-286.
• Indeterminacy and the Distribution of Growth Rates, Economics Bulletin, vol. 15 (2001), pp. 1-8. [with A. Greiner] (link)
• Empirically Based Simulation: The Case of Twin Peaks in National Income, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 4 (2001). [with U. Cantner, B. Ebersberger, H. Hanusch, A. Pyka] (link)
• Total Factor Productivity, the East Asian Miracle and the World Production Frontier, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 136 (2000), pp. 111-136. [with U. Cantner and H. Hanusch]

Articles in Edited Volumes and Nonrefereed Journals

• Empirical Tools for the Analysis of Technological Heterogeneity and Change: Some Basic Building Blocks of 'Evolumetrics', in: H. Hanusch, A. Pyka (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2007, pp. 493-502. [with U. Cantner]
• Das Bellman'sche Optimalitätsprinzip, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WiSt), vol. 34(3), 2005, pp. 155-158.
• Verweildaueranalysen in der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung, Das Wirtschaftsstudium (WISU), no. 10, 2004, pp. 1287-1293. [with U. Cantner and K. Dreßler]
• Technological and Economic Mobility in Large German Manufacturing Firms, in: J.S. Metcalfe, J. Foster (eds.), Evolution and Economic Complexity, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2004, pp. 172-190. [with U. Cantner]
• Empirische Analysen in der Evolutionsökonomik: Quantilsregression versus Mittelwertregression, in: M. Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, A. Ebner, D. Fornahl (eds.), Institutioneller Wandel, Marktprozesse und dynamische Wirtschaftspolitik: Perspektiven der Evolutorischen Ökonomik, Marburg: Metropolis, 2004, pp. 319-334.
• Twin-Peaks – What the Knowledge-Based Approach Can Say About the Dynamics of the World Income Distribution, in: P.P. Saviotti (ed.), Applied Evolutionary Economics: New Empirical Methods and Simulation Techniques, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2003, pp. 235-259. [with U. Cantner and A. Pyka]

Book Reviews

• Siermann, C.L.J., Politics, Institutions and the Economic Performance of Nations, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 10 (2000), pp. 462-466.

Working Papers

• The Performance of Gatekeepers in Innovator Networks, Jena Economic Research Papers, 2009-058. (link)
• Intra-Sectoral Structural Change and Aggregate Productivity Development: A Robust Stochastic Nonparametric Frontier Function Approach, Jena Economic Research Papers, 2008-038. (link)
• Small Sample Properties of the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with Discontinuous and Dependent Observations, Jena Economic Research Papers, 2007-32. [with N. Chlaß] (link)
• On the Dynamics of the U.S. Manufacturing Productivity Distribution, Jenaer Schriften zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft, FSU Jena, 05/2003. (link)
• Wachstum und technologischer Fortschritt im internationalen Vergleich: Neue Befunde zur Krugman-Kontroverse, Universität Augsburg, Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsreihe, no. 158, 1997 [with U. Cantner and H. Hanusch]. (link)