Almut Balleer

Professor for Applied Macroeconomics

RWI Essen and TU Dortmund

Biography

I am Co-Head of the Department of Macroeconomics and Public Ecoomics at RWI Essen and Professor for Applied Macroeconomics at TU Dortmund. Previously, I was Professor at RWTH Aachen. I am affiliated with IIES at Stockholm University, CEPR and CESifo. I also serve as research professor at the ifo Institute Munich. My research focuses on macroeconomics, in particular business cycles, labor and monetary economics. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn.

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Current Research

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Marvin Nöller, Ahmet Ali Taskin (2025). Monetary policy, the bank-lending channel and labor market adjustment of firms. draft coming soon.

Almut Balleer, Georg Dürnecker, Susanne Forstner, Johannes Goensch (2024). Bias in labor market expectations and wages: Evidence from German survey data. revise and resubmit at Journal of Monetary Economics.

Latest version CEPR DP 18005 CEPR DP 18019 CESifo WP

Almut Balleer, Monika Merz, Tamas Papp (2024). Heterogeneous Preferences, Spousal Interaction, and Couples’ Time-Use. revise and resubmit at International Economic Review.

Latest version CEPR DP

Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke (2024). Uncovering the mechanism(s): Financial constraints and wages. revise and resubmit at Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Latest version

Almut Balleer, Marvin Nöller (2023). Monetary policy in the presence of supply constraints: Evidence from German firm-level data.

Latest version CEPR DP CESifo WP

Almut Balleer, Peter Zorn (2019). The Micro-level Price Response to Monetary Policy.

Latest version CEPR DP CESifo WP

Almut Balleer, Nikolay Hristov, Dominik Menno (2019). Menu costs, the price gap distribution and monetary non-neutrality: The role of financial constraints.

Latest version Online appendix CEPR DP VoxEU

Recent Publications

Almut Balleer, Georg Dürnecker, Susanne Forstner, Johannes Goensch (2024). The Effects of Biased Labor Market Expectations on Consumption, Wealth Inequality, and Welfare. conditionally accepted at American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

Latest version CEPR DP

Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Ahmet Taskin (2024). Minimum wages and financial constraints in firms. European Economic Review, Vol. 163, April 2024, 104678.

Published version IZA DP 16455

Almut Balleer, Sebastian Link, Manuel Menkhoff, Peter Zorn (2024). Demand or supply? Price Adjustment During the Covid-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Central Banking, Vol. 20(1), 2024, pp 94-158.

Published version CEPR DP CESifo WP Covid Economics VoxEU

Almut Balleer (2023). Comment on “Sectoral shocks, reallocation, and labor market policies” by Joaquín García-Cabo, Anna Lipińska, and Gastón Navarro. European Economic Review, Volume 157, August, 2023.

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Almut Balleer, Morten Endrikat (2021). Air quality in welfare accounting. Macoeconomic Dynamics,27 (4), June, pp. 1019-1058.

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