Philipp Kircher

Professor of Economics, University of Edinburgh

 

 

Philipp Kircher is a Professor of Economics at the University of Edinburgh. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn in 2006, and help positions at the London School of Economics, Oxford, and the University of Pennsylvania.

 

His main research interest concerns the functioning of the labour market: how firms compete to attract applicants and how workers search for new employment. He assesses the theoretical properties of equilibrium models of the search and matching process, as well as their ability to account for observed labour market data at the macro and micro level. He uses experimental data in abstract settings to understand social preferences under uncertainty, but also to understand better how real job seekers can be helped back into work.

 

Philipp was Managing Editor at the Review of Economic Studies and his research has been published in leading journals, he is also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Economic Association.