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Loukas Karabarbounis
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/loukas.karabarbounis/
Updated: 16-Dec-2013
Contact Information:
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Harper Center 305; Phone: (+01) 773-834-8327
Email: loukas.karabarbounis@chicagobooth.edu
Appointments:
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business: Assistant Professor of Economics, July
2010-present.
The National Bureau of Economic Research: Faculty Research Fellow, April 2012-present.
Education:
Harvard University: Ph.D. in Economics, June 2010.
Harvard University: A.M. in Economics, November 2008.
Athens University of Economics and Business: M.Sc. in Economics, January 2005.
Athens University of Economics and Business: B.A. in Economics, September 2003.
Publications:
8. “The Global Decline of the Labor Share.” Forthcoming at The Quarterly Journal of
Economics. (With Brent Neiman.)
7. “The Labor Wedge: MRS vs. MPN.” Forthcoming at the Review of Economic Dynamics.
6. “Time Use During the Great Recession.” The American Economic Review, 103(5), 1664-1696,
August 2013. (With Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst.)
5. “The Life-Cycle Profile of Time Spent on Job Search.” The American Economic Review,
Papers and Proceedings, 103(3), 111-116, May 2013. (With Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst.)
4. “Recent Developments in the Economics of Time Use.” Annual Review of Economics, 4(1),
373-397, July 2012. (With Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst.)
3. “One Dollar, One Vote.” The Economic Journal, 121(553), 621-651, June 2011. Lead Article.
Awarded the Royal Economic Society Prize for the best paper published in The Economic
Journal in 2011.

2. “Gender-Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores.” American Economic Journal:
Economic Policy, 3(2), 1-40, May 2011. (With Alberto Alesina and Andrea Ichino.)
1. “The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility.” Economic Inquiry, 49(1), 47-
69, January 2011. (With Andrea Ichino and Enrico Moretti.)
Working Papers:
“The Cyclicality of the Opportunity Cost of Employment.” NBER Working Paper No. 19678,
December 2013. (With Gabriel Chodorow-Reich.)
“Home Production, Labor Wedges, and International Real Business Cycles.” NBER Working
Paper 18366, November 2013. Accepted with major revisions required at the Journal of Monetary
Economics.
“Declining Labor Shares and the Global Rise of Corporate Saving.” NBER Working Paper No.
18154, October 2012. (With Brent Neiman.)
Invited Presentations:
Seminars: University of Texas at Austin (April 2014), Yale University (April 2014), Brown
University (April 2014), Federal Reserve Bank of New York (September 2013), International
Monetary Fund (May 2013), Bank of Greece (December 2012), University of Maryland
(November 2012), UC Berkeley (September 2012), Stanford University (September 2012), HEC
Montreal (September 2012), Central European University (September 2012), University of
Chicago Booth Macro/International (June 2012), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (May
2012), University of Chicago Booth Microeconomics (October 2011), Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis (June 2011), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (June 2011), Athens
University of Economics and Business (December 2010), Bank of Greece (December 2010),
University of Iowa (October 2010), Stockholm University (February 2010), London School of
Economics (February 2010), Columbia Graduate School of Business (February 2010), Brown
University (January 2010), Brandeis University (January 2010), Penn State University (January
2010), UCLA Anderson Global Economics & Management (January 2010), University of
Chicago Booth Macro/International (January 2010), NERA Economic Consulting NYC
(December 2009), Harvard University International Seminar (April 2009).
Conferences: Kiel Institute for the World Economy Excellence Award Workshop (June 2014),
NBER Economic Fluctuations & Growth (February 2014), AEA Annual Meetings in Philadelphia
(January 2014), AEA Annual Meetings in San Diego (January 2013), Arizona State University
CASEE “Quantitative Macro” Conference (November 2012), NBER Economic Fluctuations &
Growth (October 2012; *), NBER Summer Institute, Macro Perspectives (July 2012), NBER
Summer Institute, Capital Markets (July 2012; *), 4 th Tsinghua Workshop in Macroeconomics
(June 2012; *), NBER 23 rd Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics (June 2012; *), Society of
Labor Economics Annual Meetings in Chicago (April 2012), NBER Workshop on “Micro and
Macro Perspectives on the Aggregate Labor Market” in Aarhus University (November 2011).
[Note: * = paper invited at conference and presented by coauthor.]

Discussions: AEA Annual Meetings in San Diego (January 2013), University of Chicago Becker-
Friedman Institute “Recent Developments in the Economics of Home Production” Conference
(October 2012), NBER Summer Institute, Political Economy (July 2012).
Honors, Fellowships, Prizes, and Grants (Selected):
2014 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs, Kiel Institute.
2012 Royal Economic Society Prize, The Economic Journal.
2011-2012 Initiative on Global Markets Grants, Chicago Booth (with Brent Neiman).
2010-2011 Neubauer Family Faculty Fellowship, Chicago Booth.
2010-2011 Associate Research Scholarship, Princeton Economics & IES (declined).
2009-2010 Alan and Barbara Washkowitz Fellowship, Harvard Economics.
2009 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard Economics.
2005-2010 Graduate, Summer, and Dissertation Fellowships, Harvard GSAS.
2006-2007 Douglas Dillon Fellowship Fund, Harvard Economics.
2006 Selected Participant at 7 th SIBE (U Trento), Russell Sage Foundation.
2005 Valedictorian, Athens University of Economics and Business (GPA: 9.9).
Teaching:
Chicago Booth
Harvard Econ
Macroeconomics (MBA: Business-33040).
Macroeconomics (PhD: Econ-2010d); International Finance (PhD: Econ-
2530b); Microeconomics (BA: Econ-1011a/1010a).
Other Professional Activities:
Short Visiting
Positions
Referee
Non-Academic
Publications and
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (May 2012); Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis, Research Department (June 2011).
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (1), American Economic
Journal: Macroeconomics (3), The American Economic Review (2),
Columbia University Press (1), Economic Inquiry (2), The Economic
Journal (4), European Economic Review (1), International Economic
Review (5), Journal of Economic Growth (2), Journal of the European
Economic Association (3), The Journal of Human Resources (1), Journal of
International Economics (3), Journal of Monetary Economics (1), Journal
of Money, Credit, and Banking (1), Journal of Political Economy (2),
Journal of Public Economic Theory (1), Journal of Public Economics (3),
LABOUR (1), Labour Economics (3), Public Finance Analysis (2), The
Quarterly Journal of Economics (1), Review of Economic Dynamics (3),
Review of Economics of the Household (2), The Review of Economics and
Statistics (1), The Review of Economic Studies (1), Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (1), The Scandinavian Journal of
Economics (1).
7. “Labor Shares and Corporate Savings.” EconBrowser, 26 June 2012.
(With Brent Neiman.)

Other Writings
6. “How Are Unemployed Persons Spending Their Newfound Time?”
VoxEU.org, 17 August 2011. (With Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst.)
5. “A “One Dollar, One Vote” Explanation of the Welfare State.”
VoxEU.org, 16 October 2010.
4. “Is Greece Relying Too Much on Taxes to Adjust?” Greek Economists
for Reform, 9 September 2010.
3. “Gender Based Taxation: A Response to Critics.” VoxEU.org, 15
February 2008. (With Alberto Alesina and Andrea Ichino.)
2. “Using Tax Policy to Empower Women.” VoxEU.org, 9 January 2008.
(With Alberto Alesina and Andrea Ichino.)
1. “Gender Based Taxation Can Improve Welfare.” VoxEU.org, 10
December 2007. (With Alberto Alesina and Andrea Ichino.)
Organization of
Conferences and
Workshops
“International Macro and Finance Conference.” University of Chicago
Fama-Miller Institute, December 2013.
“Recent Developments in the Economics of Home Production.” University
of Chicago Becker-Friedman Institute, October 2012.
“Macro/International Workshop.” University of Chicago Booth, Spring
2011, Winter 2013, Winter 2014.