Asger Lau Andersen
  • Øster Farimagsgade 5, Bygning 26

    1353 København K

Personal profile

Short presentation

I'm an associate professor at the Department of Economics and a member of Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality and the Economic Policy Research Unit. For more about me and my research, please visit my personal website at https://sites.google.com/site/asgerlauandersen/.

 

Primary fields of research

Household economics, consumption, borrowing and saving behaviour, and political economics

Teaching

Jeg underviser i Økonomi i Samfundet på økonomistudiet og Økonomi 1 og 2 på Institut for Statskundskab. Jeg vejleder opgaver inden for

  • husholdningers forbrug, låntagning og opsparingsadfærd
  • anvendt mikroøkonometri
  • politisk økonomi

CV

Born: 10 December 1981 

 

Education

  • PhD in economics, University of Copenhagen, 2010
  • MSc Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2007
  • MSc Economics, London School of Economics, 2006
  • BSc Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2004

Previous positions

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of Copenhagen
  • Head of section/Adviser, Danmarks Nationalbank, 2010-14

Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Economics University of Copenhagen

 Awards and grants

  • DFF-Individual Postdoctoral grant, The Danish Council for Independent Research, 2015
  • Economic Policy Research Network grant, 2014 and 2016
  • ELITEFORSK travel grant, Danish Ministry of Science,  2009
  • Zeuthen-prize, Society of Social Economics, University of Copenhagen ("best master's thesis in economics"), 2007
  • Ely Devons Prize, London School of Economics ("outstanding performance in the MSc Economics"), 2006

Keywords

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Political Economics
  • Household Economics
  • Fiscal Policy
  • Fiscal transparency
  • Household debt

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