Katja Mann

Welcome to my page.

I am an Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School and a member of the Pension Research Centre (PeRCent) at CBS. I am also an Associate Editor at the European Economic Review and a CEPR Research Affiliate.

My research primarily relates to technological change and its effects on employment, wages and different dimensions of inequality. I also have a secondary research agenda on the economics of pensions, where I study savings behavior and wealth inequality. Most of my work combines macro models with micro data.

I talked about some of my research in a Podcast on insightview.eu.

You can find my CV here.

Working Papers

Consumption Inequality in the Digital Age (NEW VERSION July 2025) (with Kai Arvai). SSRN WP (8/2023). VoxEU column (1/2022). SUERF policy brief (2/2023). Revise and resubmit (2nd round) at the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Work in Progress

Distinct but Linked: Spillovers Between Pension and Non-Pension Investments (with Alina Bartscher) (draft coming soon)

Inequality and the Direction of Technological Progress (with Kai Arvai, Antonin Bergeaud and Rentian Zhu)

Contact

Department of Economics

Copenhagen Business School

Porcelænshaven 16A

2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark

+45-38152596

kma.eco(at)cbs.dk

Publications

Robots and Immigration (with Dario Pozzoli), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2024). IZA WP (12/2022). Non-technical summary on IZA News Room in English and German.
Media coverage: Weekendavisen, Atlantico

Pension Reform and Wealth Inequality: Theory and Evidence (with Torben Andersen, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Anna Grodecka-Messi), European Economic Review (2024). CEPR WP, Riksbank WP (4/2022). VoxEU column (5/2022). I have talked about this project in the podcast Rig på viden (12/2021, in English).
Media coverage: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Benign Effects of Automation: New Evidence from Patent Texts (with Lukas Püttmann), Review of Economics and Statistics (2023), vol. 105 (3), pp. 580-595. Online Appendix. Dataset. VoxEU column (12/1017); for additional information on this project, visit my co-author's website here.

Does Foreign Capital Go Where the Returns Are? Financial Integration and Capital Allocation Efficiency, International Journal of Finance and Economics (2021), vol. 26 (3), pp. 3945-3971.

Estimating the Demand for Reserve Assets Across Diverse Groups of Countries (with Rina Bhattacharya and Mwanza Nkusu), Review of International Economics (2019), vol. 27, pp. 822-853.

Assessing the Forward Premium Puzzle: A Factor Augmented Panel Data Approach (with Jörg Breitung), in: Cheung, Y.W. and Westermann, F. (eds.) "International Currency Exposure", MIT Press (2017)

Dormant Papers

External Asset Positions, Demography and Life-cycle Portfolio Choice (with Margaret Davenport)

The EU, a Growth Engine? The Impact of European Integration on Economic Growth in Central Eastern Europe, FIW Working Paper No. 136, January 2015

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