Welcome to my website. I am an associate professor of economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Below you can find information about my research. You can also download my cv here.
Contact details:
Alexandre Janiak
Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Instituto de Economía
Santiago, Chile
Do prudent consumers save against inflation risk? with Ignacio Rojas King
The COVID shock and policy responses in Chile, with A. Aguirre, S. Bauducco and L. Villacorta
Self-employment over the life cycle, with A. Aguirre, S. Bauducco and L. Villacorta
Labor market polarization in Latin America, with M. Jeldres, J. Lafortune and J. Tessada
The grasshopper, the ant and the minimum wage, with J. Rojas Hepburn
Working (and shopping) time regulations
"If you build it, they will come:" Entrepreneurs, mobility and social capital, with S. Auray and D. Fuller
On the cyclicality of liquidity in a consumption-based asset pricing model with search frictions, with A. Aguirre and E. Dusha.
You are nothing without me: domestic violence and divorce, with Jeanne Lafortune and Alejandro Sierra Campodónico
On the welfare cost of bank concentration, with S. Bauducco.
Employment protection and capital-labor ratios, with E. Wasmer.
Covid-19 contagion, economic activity and business reopening protocols, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, Vol. 182, pp. 264-284, with Caio Machado and Javier Turén
The macroeconomic consequences of raising the minimum wage: capital accumulation, employment and the wage distribution, European Economic Review, 2018, Vol. 101, pp. 57-76, with S. Bauducco.
Can a non-binding minimum wage reduce wages and employment?, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2017, Vol. 21, Iss. 8, pp. 2158-2169, with S. Bauducco.
Towards a quantitative theory of automatic stabilizers: the role of demographics, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016, Vol. 78, pp. 35-49, with P. Santos Monteiro.
Unemployment, participation and worker flows over the life cycle, Economic Journal, 2015, Vol. 125, Iss. 589, pp. 1705-1733, with S. Choi and B. Villena-Roldan. Data here.
Structural unemployment and the costs of firm entry and exit, Labour Economics, 2013, Vol. 23, pp. 1-19.
Inflation and welfare in long-run equilibrium with firm dynamics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, Vol. 43, Iss. 5, pp. 795-834, with P. Santos Monteiro.
Local social capital and geographical mobility, Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, pp. 191-204, with Q. David and E. Wasmer.
Mobility in Europe. Why it is low, the bottlenecks, and the policy solutions, with E. Wasmer, European Commission, European Economy Economic Papers 340, September 2008, 157pp.
