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• Conference on economic decisions related to search and matching »

My Fall 2010 conference in Aarhus.

• Course: The Economics of Search and Matching »

Materials for my upcoming fall course at Aarhus are under development here.

• My research »

Marriage, Fertility and Step-Families: An Equilibrium Analysis

Research by John Kennes

My research is mostly about the theory and application of directed search. I have added subject headings to a selection of my own papers to give some evidence of the breadth and scope of this topic

Monetary exchange

• Bidding for Money, (2008) Journal of Economic Theory (with Benoit Julien and Ian King)

Family Economics

•  Marriage, Fertility and Step-Families: An Equilibrium Analysis (2010) mimeo (with John Knowles)

Labor Economics

• Bidding for Labor (2000) Review of Economic Dynamics (with Benoit Julien and Ian King)
• Ex post bidding and efficient coordination unemployment, (2005) Canadian Journal of Economics (with Benoit Julien and Ian King)
• Residual Wage Dispersion and Coordination Unemployment (2006) International Economic Review (with Benoit Julien and Ian King)
• The Mortensen Rule and Efficient Coordination Unemployment (2007)  Economics Letters (with Benoit Julien and Ian King)
• Underemployment, Unemployment and the Beveridge curve (2007) Economics Letters
• Directed Search, Unemployment, and Public Policy, (2009) Canadian Journal of Economics (with Benoit Julien and Ian King)
• Implementing the Mortensen Rule, Journal of Macroeconomics (with Benoit Julien and Ian King), forthcoming
• Job Heterogeneity and Coordinations Frictions: A Discrete Time Analysis (2010), mimeo (with Daniel le Maire)
   

Position markets

• Simple Reputation Systems (2007) Scandinavian Journal of Economics (with Aaron Schiff)
• Quality Infomediation in Search Markets (2008) International Journal of International Organization (with Aaron Schiff)

Auction theory

• Auctions Beat Posted Prices in a Small Market (2001) Journal of Institutional Economics (with Ian King and Benoit Julien)
• Auctions and Posted Prices in Directed Search Equilibrium (2002) Topics in Macroeconomics, BePress Journals in Macroeconomics. (with Ian King and Benoit Julien)

Survey

• Competitive Auctions: Theory and Application (2006) In 'Structural Models of Wage and Employment Dynamics', Editors:  Henning Bunzel, Bent Christensen, George Neumann, and Jean-Marc Robin, North-Holland.

John Kennes

Associate Professor

University of Aarhus

Website under development.