23-05-07>>

Workshop on Growth, ICT, and Human Capital

22-05-07>>

Conference on ICT, Productivity, and Welfare 

22-05-07>>

Workshop on Human Capital, Patenting Activity, and Technology Spillovers

15-03-07>>

Vækst- og produktivitetsregnskaber (EU KLEMS)

12-02-07>>

Should Old-age Benefits be Earnings-tested?

24-01-07>>

Police Intelligence Units can be very effective 
 

2006

05-12-06>>

Using Game Shows to infer Risk Attitudes

 20-11-06>>

CEBR Seminar: The interaction of long term unemployment and early retirement

 20-11-06>>

Self-employment need not always be a bad experience!

 13-11-06>>

Returns to Schooling in Self-Employment 

02-11-06>>

CEBR Seminar: A Stock-Free Solow Residual

 30-10-06>>

CEBR Seminar: Foreign Owned Firms, Productivity Transfers, and Entrepreneurship

 26-10-06>>

Workers earn higher wages in human capital intensive exporting firms

 23-10-06>>

Institutional Investors Invest Directly in Private Equity Funds

 23-10-06>>

Examining Dynamic Choice Behavior in the Television Show “Deal or No Deal”.

 23-10-06>>

When Projects are judged by Multiple Criteria.

12-10-06>>

Evaluations of Beauty Explains Success in Real Elections.

12-09-06>>

Mød min søn - din nye direktør

23-08-06>>

Patents and Profit Rates

21-08-06>>

Economic self-interest explains attitudes towards immigration.

21-08-06>>

Danes more hostile towards immigration? 

17-08-06>>

Magazine Readers: Ad-lovers, Ad-haters or Ad-neutrals?

08-08-06>>

Asset integration plays a major role when analysing choice under risk.

22-05-06>>

Wage flexibility in Europe back to pre-Maastricht levels 

15-05-06>>

Home ownership improves individual labour market outcomes

01-05-06>>

CEBR Seminar: The Wage Effect of Social Norms

24-04-06>>

Conference on the Politics of Corporate Governance

28-03-06>>

Classroom training is an effective activation program. 

09-02-06>>

Anti-corruption laws boost the role of political parties.

09-02-06>>

Wages of Danish manufacturing workers rise as a result of domestic outsourcing. 
 

01-02-06>>

Online retailers use online advertising as signals for prices or quality

25-01-06>>

On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results

20-01-06>>

Optimal Policy under Restricted Government Spending.

20-01-06>>

CEBR hosts workshop on "Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability in the European Union".

18-01-06>>

Public private partnerships in social and health insurance have great fiscal potential.

12-01-06>>

Danish patents are economically more valuable than patents from other EU countries.

11-01-06>>

CEBR hosts a conference about "Entrepreneurship".

11-01-06>>
CEBR arranges a workshop about "Governance and Development in the Middle East and North Africa".

10-01-06>>

Michael Rosholm new Chairman of the Danish Economic Council.

01-01-06>>

Anders Sørensen appointed Professor of Economics

Two new major CEBR fundings

Based on a major grant from Tuborgfondet, CEBR launches a new research project on "Future Demand for Educated Labour in Denmark". The project was announced at a ceremony in Copenhagen on March 31, 2005. The financial support from Tuborgfondet amounts to DKK 5.7 mio. Read more.

Based on a major grant from the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, CEBR launches a new research project on "The EU Enlargement and the Danish Labour Market". The financial support from the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit amounts to DKK 3.7 mio. Read more.

June 2005

Ph.D. student Steffen Andersen will be visiting Department of Economics, University of Chicago in the academic year of 2005/2006. Steffen Andersen will be visiting and working with Professor John A. List.

CEBR launches the project ”Macroeconomic Conditions and the Management of Research and Development in the Nordic Countries” on behalf of the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Danish Ministry of Finance. The results of the project are due to arrive late September 2005. Read more.

April 2005

Stud. polit. Martin Bøge has joined the CEBR as a Research assistant.

March 2005

February

CEBR research assistant Jens Iversen has been admitted to the PhD programme at University of Aarhus by February 1, 2005.

The CEBR Status Report 2003 is available here.

January

New CEBR Discussion Paper 2005-01

Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach by Marko Köthenbürger, Panu Poutvaara and Paola Profeta has been added to the CEBR publications.

December 2004

Research assistant Marie Ebbensgaard has joined CEBR.

Research director Morten Bennedsen was awarded a prestigious price from Reinholdt W. Jorck and Wife's foundation on Dec. 13, 2004. The price of DKK 150,000 and a glass sculpture were given for outstanding research and was presented by the the president of the Supreme Court.  

October, 2004

On October 10th-11th, the Centre for Economic and Business Research hosted an international workshop on Entrepreneurship. Read more.

CEBR Ph.D. student Bertel Schjerning was on the winning team from the University of Copenhagen when the European Championships in Econometrics were held in Amsterdam on October 8th.  

June, 2004

Research Fellow Panu Poutvaara has been invited to join IZA network as Research Fellow. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) is a private, independent research institute in Bonn, which conducts nationally and internationally oriented labor market research. IZA cooperates closely with the Economics Department at the University of Bonn.

February, 2004

Ph. D. students, Cédric Schneider and Ole Jørgensen, have joined CEBR. Research assistant Mads Børlum has joined CEBR.   

March, 2004

Research assistant Søren Mejlby Johansen has joined CEBR.

January, 2004

Two CEBR research projects have received funding from the Danish Social Science Research Council. The project on "Fiscal Regimes, Human Capital Formation, and Structural Reforms in the European Union", coordinated by Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Panu Poutvaara, has been awarded DKK 3.0 mio, and the project on "Human Capital, Patenting Activity, and Technology Spillovers", coordinated by Ulrich Kaiser and Thomas Rønde, has received a grant of DKK 2.3 mio. Both projects run over a period of three years.

November, 2003

CEBR Director of Research, Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, was appointed as member of Danmarks Forskningspolitiske Råd. Read more.

Ph. D. student, Jens Christian H. Thellesen, has joined CEBR. 

October, 2003

Research assistants Jens Iversen and Rasmus Jørgensen joined CEBR.

September, 2003

Core member, Søren Bo Nielsen, joined CEBR. 

August, 2003

Ph. D. student, Bertel Schjerning, joined CEBR.

June, 2003

A conference on Social Security, Labour Supply and Demographic Change was held at CEBR.

Core member, Thomas Rønde, joined CEBR. 

May, 2003

CEBR researchers Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Ulrich Kaiser, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jan Rose Skaksen and Anders Sørensen received the Grundfos Prize for the monograph ”Denmark and the Information Society: Challenges for Research and Education Policy".