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My name is Jens Iversen. I am an assistant professor at the Department of Business and Economics at the University of Southern Denmark. My primary research interest is international macroeconomics. I have worked on the business cycle effects of international financial integration and the determinants of real exchange rates. I have also done research in the area of entrepreneurship. Below you can find my CV and get access to my research papers.

 

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Contact Information

Department of Business and Economics

University of Southern Denmark

Campusvej 55

DK—5230 Odense M

Denmark

 

Tel:     +45 6550 4194

Mob:   +45 2280 7882

Fax:    +45 6550 3237

E:        jei [at] sam.sdu.dk

 

 

Employment

Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, April 2009—present

 

Teaching Assistant, Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, November — December 2007

 

Research Assistant, Centre for Economic and Business Research, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, October 2003—January 2005

 

 

Education

Ph. D. (Economics) University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2009

Title of Thesis: ”Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rates: Essays in International Macroeconomics”

Commitee: Henrik Jensen and Ulf Söderström, Bo Sandemann Rasmussen (chair)

Supervisor: Torben M. Andersen

 

M.Sc. (Economics) University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2007

 

B.Sc. (Economics) University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003

 

 

Other Academic Experience

Visiting PhD Student, Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, February—August 2008, Contact: Professor Charles Nolan

 

 

Publications

Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship, Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, vol. 4(1), pp. 1—63 (with Rasmus Jørgensen and Nikolaj Malchow-Møller)

 

Returns to Schooling in Self-Employment, Economics Letters, vol. 109(3), pp. 179-182 (with Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Anders Sørensen)

 

The Returns to Education in Entrepreneurship: Heterogeneity and Non-Linearities, Entrepreneurship Research Journal, forthcoming,  (with Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Anders Sørensen)

 

Working Papers

Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Discussion Paper on Business and Economics, 4/2009, Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark (with Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Anders Sørensen)

 

Should We Expect Financial Globalization to Have Significant Effects on Business Cycles?

 

Work in Progress

The PPP Puzzle and Incomplete Financial Markets

Real Exchange Rates and Real Shocks

On the International Financial Market Structure in New Keynesian Business Cycle Models

 

Conferences, Workshops and Seminars

> Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Guildford, England, March, 2010

> Zeuthen Workshop on New Keynesian Macroeconomics, Copenhagen, Denmark, March, 2010

> Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, USA, February, 2010

> ECON and CEBR Conference on Success in Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen, Denmark, February, 2010

> 5th Dynare Conference, Oslo, Norway, August, 2009

> 7th INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Dublin, Ireland, June, 2009

> CBS Workshops for PhD Students, Copenhagen, Denmark, June and December 2008

> Brown Bag Seminar, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, March, 2008

> Arne Ryde Symposium on the Economics of Higher Education, Lund, Sweden, November, 2006

> CEBR Conference on Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen, Denmark, June, 2006