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Personal Details

Born November 1969 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Married to Signe Thustrup Kreiner

Two Children: Mads born in 2001 and Marie born in 2002

Change of last name in Spring 2000 from Hansen to Kreiner

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1998

Visiting Ph.D. student, University of York, 1996

M.Sc. in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1994

Professional Experience (After Ph.D.)

Director, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), CoE founded in 2017, financed by a grant for the Danish National Research Foundation, 2017- 

Director, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), 2005-

Director, WEST, a Center of Research Excellence of the University of Copenhagen, 2011-2013

Professor, University of Copenhagen, 2005-

Visiting Scholar, Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at UC Berkeley, 2003

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, 1999-2004

Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, 1997-1999

Research Interests

Primary specialization: Public Economics 

Secondary specialization: Labor Economics, Household Finance, Applied Microeconometrics, Experimental Economics 

Editorial Service

Co-Editor. Journal of Public Economics, 2014-2021

Associate Editor, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013-

Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economics, 2009-2014

Board of Editors, Danish Journal of Economics (Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift), 2000-2016

Miscellaneous

Chair of Expert Commission on Reforming the Danish Active Labor Market Policy, 2023-

Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2023-

Programme Committee (Chair of Public Economics) for the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association 2022

AER: Insights Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2022

Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research, University of Helsinki, VATT, Tampere University, 2022-

Member of Danish Expert Commission on the Design of a Green Tax Reform 2021-2023

Richard Musgrave Lecture 2020

Distinguished Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network, University of Münich, 2020-

Area Director of Public Economics, CESifo network, 2019- 

Board of Management, International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), 2019- 

Appointed Knight of The Order of Dannebrog by HMS Dronning Margrethe II, 2018

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Econometric Society Winter Meetings 2018

Co-chair of the Scientific Committee, Annual Congress of the International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF), 2018

Programme Committee member for the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association 2017

Co-chair of the Danish Economic Council (vismand), 2010-2014

Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, 2009-

Member of the Danish Tax Commission, 2008-2009

Deputy Member, The Danish Competition Council, 2009

Grant from the Danish Social Science Research Council, 2009

Grant from the International Growth Center (IGC), 2009

The Invisible Hand Award (granted by the Society of Social Economics), 2006

Grant from the Danish Social Science Research Council, 2003, 2006

EPRU-Network Research Grants, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015

Best Teacher Award (granted by the Study Board of Economics at University of Copenhagen), 2002

The Invisible Hand Award (granted by the Society of Social Economics), 2001

Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network, University of Münich, 2000-

Grant from the Danish National Research Foundation (received in cooperation with other EPRU members), 1998-2003

Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Copenhagen, 1997-

Zeuthen Award (granted to the best Master Thesis in Economics at University of Copenhagen), 1994