Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer (Universitetslektor) in Economics at Jönköping University, Sweden, holding a tenured position.

News: I am delighted to have been chosen as the Teacher of the Year 2023 by students at Jönköping International Business School. I have also been awarded funding from the Hamrin Foundation for a three-year research project with Mathias Klein, investigating firm pricing, leverage, and monetary policy.

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Interests

  • Macroeconomics
  • Asset Prices
  • Household Finance
  • Housing
  • Public Finance
  • Wealth Inequality

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2019

    Leipzig University | Central-German Doctoral Program Economics (CGDE)

  • MSc in Economics, 2014

    Leipzig University

  • BSc in International Economics, 2011

    University of Tübingen

Publications

Volker Grossmann, Benjamin Larin, Hans Torben Löfflad, Thomas Steger (2021). Distributional Consequences of Surging Housing Rents. Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 196.

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Working Papers

Volker Grossmann, Benjamin Larin, Thomas Steger (2023). Das House Kapital: A Long-Run Theory of House Prices and Housing Wealth. R&R at the Journal of the European Economic Association.

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Benjamin Larin (2020). Bubble-Driven Business Cycles.

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Pre-PhD Papers

Benjamin Larin, Bernd Süßmuth (2014). Fiscal Autonomy and Fiscal Sustainability: Subnational Taxation and Public Indebtedness in Contemporary Spain.

CESifo

Björn Kauder, Benjamin Larin, Niklas Potrafke (2014). Was bringt uns die große Koalition? Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik.

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