Christopher A Pissarides

Position: Professor of Economics, Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics

Research Interests: Macroeconomics of labour markets, structural change, economic growth.

The Unemployment Volatility Puzzle: Is Wage Stickiness the Answer?, The Walras-Bowley lecture, North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Duke University, June 21-24, 2007, forthcoming in Econometrica. Longer version (with endogenous job destruction)
Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State (with L. Rachel Ngai) forthcoming Revue Economique, May 2008 (the Jean-Jacques Laffont Memorial Lecture, 2007)
The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment (with Barbara Petrongolo) forthcoming American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2008 download data
Trends in Hours and Economic Growth (with L. Rachel Ngai) forthcoming Review of Economic Dynamics
The Impact of TFP Growth on Steady-State Unemployment (with Giovanna Vallanti) International Economic Review 48 (May 2007) 607-640
Structural Change in a Multisector Model of Growth (with L Rachel Ngai) American Economic Review 97 (March 2007) 429-443
Unemployment and Hours of Work: The North Atlantic Divide Revisited International Economic Review, 48 (February 2007) 1-36 (the Lawrence B Klein lecture, 2006)
Unemployment Dynamics with International Capital Mobility (with Costas Azariadis)
European Economic Review, 51 (January 2007) 27-48
Scale Effects in Markets with Search (with Barbara Petrongolo)
Economic Journal, 116 (January 2006) 21-44.
Trade and Industrial Location with Heterogeneous Labor (with Mary Amiti), Journal of International Economics, 67 (December 2005) 392-412

Making Trade Work for Jobs, (with Dipak Dasgupta, Mustapha Kamel Nabli, and Aristomene Varoudakis), in Mustapha Kamel Nabli, ed., Breaking the Barriers to Higher Economic growth: Better Governance and Deeper Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2007
Lisbon Five Years Later: What Future for European Employment and Growth? Keynote address delivered at the Austrian Presidency conference on Innovations in Labour market Policies: Challenges in Times of Globalisation, Vienna, 16-17 February, 2006.
Labor Markets and Economic Growth in the MENA Region, (with Marie-Ange Veganzones-Varoudakis), in Nugent, Jeffrey B and Pesaran M Hashem, Explaining Growth in the Middle East, Amsterdam and Oxford: Elsevier, 2007.
Unemployment in Britain : A European Success Story, in Werding, Martin (ed.), Structural Unemployment in Western Europe: Reasons and Remedies, CESifo Seminar Series, Cambridge MA, London, UK : MIT Press, 2006.

Edited Book

International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2005 (edited by Jeffrey Frankel and Christopher A Pissarides), National Bureau of Economic Research, MIT Press 2007.

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Creating More Employment in Europe. Report of the Employment Taskforce chaired by Wim Kok, November 2003, Brussels: European Communities, available online at http://europe.eu.int/comm/employment_social/employment_strategy/task_en.htm