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.
Contact details:
Alexandre Janiak
Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Instituto de Economía
Santiago, Chile
Precautionary taxation, with J. Alvarado
You are nothing without me: domestic violence and divorce, with J. Lafortune and A. Sierra
The gender gap in the return to job autonomy
On the welfare cost of bank concentration, with S. Bauducco
Do prudent consumers save against inflation risk? with I. Rojas King
The grasshopper, the ant and the minimum wage, with J. Rojas Hepburn
Labor market polarization in Latin America, with M. Jeldres, J. Lafortune and J. Tessada
The COVID shock and policy responses in Chile, with A. Aguirre, S. Bauducco and L. Villacorta
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.
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 C. Machado and J. 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.
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.