Hans Aasnes Holter
Biography
Hans A. Holter is an Assistant Professor of economics at the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on how public policy affects the labor market and the macro-economy. He asks questions such as: how do modern welfare state policies affect the incentives to work and invest in human capital, how effective are they in providing insurance towards unexpected life-events, and how do we optimally design such policies? Before joining the University of Delaware, Dr. Holter was teaching at the University of Oslo in Norway and at Uppsala University in Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics and his S.B. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education
- Ph.D. in economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
- M.Sc. in economics, London School of Economics, 2005
- S.B. in economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
Select Publications
- “Singles, Couples, Time-Averaging and Taxation” (with L. Ljungquist, T. Sargent and S. Stepanchuk). Accepted, Journal of Monetary Economics
- “Dissecting Idiosyncratic Earnings Risk” (with E. Halvorsen, S. Ozkan and K. Storesletten). Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, Vol. 22(2), 617-668.
- “Fiscal Consolidation Programs and Income Inequality” (with P. Brinca, M. Ferreira, F. Franco and L. Malafry). International Economic Review, 2021, Vol. 62(1), 405-460.
- “How Do Tax Progressivity and Household Heterogeneity Affect Laffer Curves?” (with D. Krueger and S. Stepanchuk). Quantitative Economics, 2019, Vol. 10(4), 1317-1356.
- “The Real Effects of Financial (Dis)integration: A Multi-Country Equilibrium Analysis of Europe” (with I. Chakraborty, R. Hai and S. Stepanchuk). Journal of Monetary Economics, 2017, Vol 85, 28-45.
- “Fiscal Multipliers in the 21st Century” (with P. Brinca, P. Krusell and L. Malafry). Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016, Vol.77, 53-69.
- “Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence: The Impact of Taxation and Public Education Expenditure”. Quantitative Economics, 2015, Vol. 6(2), 385-428.
- “Marriage Stability, Taxation, and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe” (with I. Chakraborty and S. Stepanchuk). Journal of Monetary Economics, 2015, Vol. 72, 1-20.
Curriculum Vitae
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