Dr. Benjamin Jung

Benjamin's research focuses on the theoretical and empirical analysis of trade, foreign direct investment, and migration. He has published in journals such as Journal of International Economics, Review of International Economis, and Economics Letters. He is funded under the University's Research Funding Programme for Young Scientists.

Benjamin holds a doctoral degree in Economics from the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (2009). His dissertation project "Unpacking Trade Costs: Theory and Evidence" was awarded by the RWT Group, a regional business service provider. Benjamin also won the "Young Economist Award" of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (2009).

Benjamin is CESifo Research Network Member. He visited the Paris School of Economics (France) under an Agence Nationale de Recherche Post-Doctoral grant (Spring 2010). He temporarily held the Chair of International and Monetary Macroeconomics at the University of Konstanz (Winter term 2010/11) and the Chair in International Economics at the University of Hohenheim (Summer term 2011). 

Curriculum Vitae

• PDF file (updated January 2013)

Journal Articles

2013

• Optimal Tariffs, Retaliation and the Welfare Loss from Tariff Wars in the Melitz Model (with G. Felbermayr and M. Larch). Journal of International Economics 89(1): 13-25

2012

• Unilateral Trade Liberalization in the Melitz Model: A Note (with G. Felbermayr). Economics Bulletin 32(2): 1724-1730
• Gradualism and Dynamic Trade Adjustment: Revisiting the Pro-trade Effect of Free Trade Agreements, Economics Letters 115(1):63-66
• Optimal fixed cost subsidies in Melitz-type models, Empirica 39(1):98-108
  

2011

• Trade Intermediation and the Organization of Exporters (with Gabriel Felbermayr), Review of International Economics 19(4):634-648, longer version: Tübinger Diskussionsbeitrag Nr. 331
• Sorting it out: Technical barriers to trade and industry productivity (with G. Felbermayr),  Open Economies Review 22:93-117

2010

• Ethnic Networks, Information, and International Trade: Revisiting the Evidence (with G. Felbermayr and F. Toubal), Annales d'Economie et Statistique 97/98:41-70

2009

• The pro-trade effect of the brain-drain: Sorting out confounding factors (with G. Felbermayr), Economics Letters 104(2):72-75
•  Adjustment Dynamics of Bilateral Trade Flows: Theory and Evidence, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 145(4):421–442

Recent Working Papers

• Icebergs versus Tariffs: A Quantitative Perspective on the Gains from Trade (with F. Felbermayr and M. Larch). University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 53 (2013)
• Tariffs and Welfare in New Trade Theory Models (with G. Felbermayr and M. Larch). University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 41 (2012)
• The Home Market Effect, Regional Inequality, and Intra-Industry Reallocations (with G. Felbermayr). University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 33 (2012). Earlier draft: Home Market Effects and the Single-Sector Melitz Model. CESifo Working Paper No. 3695 (2011)

• Putting Currency Misalignment into Gravity: The Currency Union Effect Reconsidered (with J. Hogrefe and W. Kohler). University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 32 (2012). Earlier draft: Readdressing the Trade Effect of the Euro: Allowing for Currency Misalignment. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-023 (2010)

Teaching

• Empirics of Trade and Factor Flows (Master), EKU Tübingen, Winter 2012/13
• Empirics of Trade and Factor Flows (Master), EKU Tübingen, Winter 2011/12
• Advanced International Trade: Theory (Master), University of Hohenheim, Summer 2011
• The Microeconomics of Globalization: Multinational Firms (Master), University of Hohenheim, Summer 2011
• Seminar International Economics (Master), University of Hohenheim, Summer 2011
• International Economics (Bachelor, Diploma), University of Konstanz, Winter 2010
• Trade Policy under Monopolistic Competition (Master), University of Konstanz, Winter 2010
• Topics in Trade Policy (Diploma, Master), EKU Tübingen, Summer 2010 
• The Microeconomics of Globalization: Multinational Firms, University of Hohenheim, Summer 2010
• Empirics of Trade and Factor Flows (Diploma, Master), EKU Tübingen, Winter 2009
• Empirical Methods in Trade (Diploma), University of Hohenheim, Spring 2009
• Seminar International Economics and Institutions (Bachelor), University of Hohenheim, Winter 2008
• Tutorial AVWL: Aussenwirtschaft (Bachelor, Diploma), University of Hohenheim, Winter 2008
• PC Lab class Empirics of Trade and Factor Flows (Diploma, Master), EKU Tübingen, Winter 2008
• STATA Tutorial (Bachelor, Diploma), EKU Tübingen, Summer 2007, Winter 2007, Summer 2008, Winter 2008