Lars Ljungqvist

Lars Ljungqvist
Born	(1959-05-12) May 12, 1959
Nationality	Swedish
Academic career
Field	Macroeconomics
Institution	Stockholm School of Economics New York University
Alma mater	University of Minnesota Stockholm School of Economics
Influences	Neil Wallace

Lars Ljungqvist (born May 12, 1959) is a Swedish economist probably best known as the author of Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, a standard graduate level textbook of modern macroeconomics, with Thomas J. Sargent.

Ljungqvist is a macro economist with seminal papers on labour: European unemployment, wage structures, information asymmetries and international trade. He held teaching positions at SUNY and was senior economist at Fed Reserve Bank of Chicago.

He is seasonal visiting professor at New York University where he lectures the macro PhD and MBA courses at Stern, and permanent Professor at Stockholm School of Economics.

Selected publications

• Ljungqvist, Lars (2002). "How Do Lay-off Costs Affect Employment?". The Economic Journal. 112 (482): 829–853. doi:10.1111/1468-0297.00074. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Ljungqvist, Lars; Uhlig, Harald (2000). "Tax Policy and Aggregate Demand Management under Catching up with the Joneses". American Economic Review. 90 (3): 356–366. doi:10.1257/aer.90.3.356. JSTOR 117333. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Ljungqvist, Lars (1993). "Economic Underdevelopment: The Case of a Missing Market for Human Capital". Journal of Development Economics. 40 (2): 219–239. doi:10.1016/0304-3878(93)90084-Z. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Christiano, Lawrence J.; Ljungqvist, Lars (1988). "Money Does Granger-Cause Output in the Bivariate Money-Output Relation". Journal of Monetary Economics. 22 (2): 217–235. doi:10.1016/0304-3932(88)90020-7. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |author2mask= ignored (|author-mask2= suggested) (help)

External links

• CV at New York University
• MIT Press's page for Recursive Macroeconomic Theory