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Dr. Joseph Kopecky

Assistant Professor in Economics (Economics)

 


  demographic change   Economic policy making   Entrepreneurship   Entrepreneurship, innovation   FISCAL POLICY   INFLATION   MACROECONOMICS   MONETARY POLICY   population aging
 Population Ageing and Macroeconomic Policy Analysis

Details Date
Referee: SAGE Open 2023
Referee: Journal of Applied Economics 2023
Referee: Research & Politics 2023
Referee: Journal of Macroeconomics 2022
Referee: Sage Open 2022
Referee: Review of International Economics 2018
Details Date From Date To
CEPR "Wait and Involve" List 2020 Present
American Economic Associaiton, Membership 2018 Present
European Economic Association, Member 2018 Present
Western Economic Association, Member 2019 Present
Joseph Kopecky, The MacroDemography Database, V1, openICPSR, 2023, Notes: [This dataset uses the following sources that should be cited when using the relevant statistics. Please visit the source websites for more information and https://www.josephkopecky.com/ where updates will be regularly posted. For Macroeconomic Data: -Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor. 2017. "Macrofinancial History and the New Business Cycle Facts." in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2016, volume 31, edited by Martin Eichenbaum and Jonathan A. Parker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. For rates of return data: -Òscar Jordà, Katharina Knoll, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor. 2019. "The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870"2015." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(3), 1225-1298. For data on bank balance sheet ratios: -Òscar Jordà, Björn Richter, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor. 2021. "Bank capital redux: solvency, liquidity, and crisis." The Review of Economic Studies, 88(1), 260-286. Much of the demographic data comes from the Human Mortality database: -HMD. Human Mortality Database. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany), University of California, Berkeley (USA), and French Institute for Demographic Studies (France). Available at www.mortality.org (data downloaded on 15/03/2023). US Data Population data pre-1933 comes from the US census: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/pre-1980-national.html Data on projections comes from the UN Population Prospects data: -United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects 2022: Methodology of the United Nations population estimates and projections. UN DESA/POP/2022/TR/NO. 4.], Dataset, PUBLISHED  DOI
Joseph Kopecky, The Demographic Trade Database, V2, open ICPSR, 2023, Notes: [Source used to construct this database come from the CEPII Gravity database and the UN World Population Prospects database: Conte, M., P. Cotterlaz and T. Mayer (2022), "The CEPII Gravity database". CEPII Working Paper N°2022-05, July 2022. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects 2022: Methodology of the United Nations population estimates and projections. UN DESA/POP/2022/TR/NO. 4.], Dataset, PUBLISHED  DOI
Joseph Kopecky, A Match Made in Maastricht: Estimating The Treatment Effect of the Euro On Trade, OPEN ECONOMIES REVIEW, (Online first article), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Joseph Kopecky, Population age structure and secular stagnation: Evidence from long run data, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 74, 2023, p1-20 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Joseph Kopecky, Growing older and growing apart? Population age structure and trade, Journal of Economic Studies, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Joseph Kopecky, Many Unions, One Estimate? Disaggregating the Currency Union Effect on Trade, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Latest Articles, 2023, p1 - 23, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Joseph Kopecky, The Age for Austerity? Population Age Structure and Fiscal Consolidation Multipliers, Journal of Macroeconomics, 73, 2022, p1 - 25, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Joseph Kopecky, Okay Boomer... Excess Money Growth, Inflation, and Population Aging, Macroeconomic Dynamics, First View , 2022, p1 - 36, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
  

Joseph Kopecky and Alan M Taylor, The Savings Glut of the Old: Population Aging, the Risk Premium, and the Murder-Suicide of the Rentier, 2022, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Joseph Kopecky, Wasted on the Young? Aging and Entrepreneurial Activity, Opportunity, and Skill, 2022, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Joseph Kopecky, An Aging Dynamo: Demographic Change and the Decline of Entrepreneurial Activity in the United States, 2020, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Joseph Kopecky, Less Perfect Unions: Average Treatment Effects of Currency Unions and the EMU on Trade Over Time, 2019, Working Paper, PUBLISHED

  

Award Date
Provost PhD Project Awards 2020
Visiting Professor Fund, FAHSS 2019