Philipp Kircher

Philipp Kircher is a Professor of Economics at Cornell University, and honorary professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested in labor markets, with particular interest in the sorting patterns between different types of workers and different types of jobs/occupations. He uses theoretical and calibrated models to study the macro implications of changes in the sorting patterns (through technological change or trade), and has worked extensively on field experiments advising job seekers about alternative occupations they could pursue. He is also highly interested in the consequences of market frictions, usually captured by some kind of search process. Markets where this matters span from labor to competing auctions to partner search (and related questions such as the spread of sexually transmitted diseases). He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn in 2006 and held intermediate positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford University and LSE. He is Chairman of the Review of Economic Studies where he previously served as managing editor. He is a member of CEPR and fellow of the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society.