Nezih Guner

Nezih Guner is Director and Profesor at Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI). He is also a Research Affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Fellow of the Institute for Study of Labor (IZA), and a member of the Family Inequality Network (FI) within the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) at the University of Chicago. He was an Editor of Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, and the SERIEs (Journal of Spanish Economic Association) and Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Demography. He is the Chair of the Research Committee of the European Economic Association. In 2018, he served as the President of the Spanish Economic Association. Nezih Guner received his BA in Economics and Sociology from Bogazici University (Turkey) in 1992 and his PhD from the University of Rochester in 2000. He was an assistant professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University (USA), Queen's University (Canada), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and an associate professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Between 2009 and 2016, and between 2000 and 2022, he was a Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) Research Professor at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), and a Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). Between 2012 and 2015, he also served as the Deputy Director of Research at BSE. Prof. Guner's main research focuses on analyzing the causes, consequences, and implications of changing household and family structure. He worked on building general equilibrium frameworks that explicitly deal with the formation and dissolution of households and joint household decisions. Recently, he has also been studying how changes in the family structure alter the way traditional public policies (e.g., taxation and universal basic income) affect the economy. Based on this line of research on family economics, he was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant in 2010. Besides his work on family economics, Prof. Guner has recently moved to other areas of macroeconomics. In particular, he has been studying how the misallocation of resources at the micro level can affect aggregate productivity and the role of government policies on the misallocation of resources. Prof. Guner's recent research also focuses on international trade, particularly how labor market frictions and openness interact.