Joachim Hubmer
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. I obtained a PhD in Economics from Yale University in 2019. My research focuses on the macroeconomics of technological change and inequality.
What's new?
HOT OFF THE PRESS: The Race Between Preferences and Technology, 2023, Econometrica, 91: 227-261 (https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA18580).
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Tax Wedges, Financial Frictions, and Misallocation, with Árpád Ábrahám, Piero Gottardi, and Lukas Mayr, 2023, Journal of Public Economics, 227 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.105000).
UPDATED 2024/6: Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? New Longitudinal Empirical Evidence and Implications for Theories of Wealth Inequality, with Elin Halvorsen, Serdar Ozkan, and Sergio Salgado, Revise and Resubmit at Econometrica [paper] [supplemental material]
UPDATED 2024/8: Not a Typical Firm: Capital–Labor Substitution and Firms’ Labor Shares, with Pascual Restrepo, Conditionally Accepted at AEJ:Macro [paper]
FIRST DRAFT 2024/7: Scalable vs. Productive Technologies, with Mons Chan, Guangbin Hong, Serdar Ozkan, and Sergio Salgado [paper]
Contact Information
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
E-mail: jhubmer [at] sas.upenn.edu