November, 2012

Curriculum Vitae

John Kennan

             Department of Economics                              Phone:        608-262-5393
             The University of Wisconsin                          Fax:            608-263-3876
             1180 Observatory Drive                                 e-mail:        jkennan@ssc.wisc.edu
             Madison, WI 53706                                        http:            www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jkennan

Education:

                   1968 B.A., University College, Dublin.
                   1973 Ph.D., Northwestern University.

Employment

      2012-15 Richard Meese Professor of Economics, The University of Wisconsin, Madison

      1992-          Professor of Economics, The University of Wisconsin, Madison

      2007           Visiting Professor of Economics, Yale University (Spring)

      2007           Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne (Jan-March)

      2006           Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (November-December)

      2000           Senior Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne (Jan-March)

      1999           Visiting Professor of Economics, Stanford University (Autumn quarter)

      1987-92      Professor of Economics, The University of Iowa.

      1987-88      National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

      1987-88      Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University.

      1980-87      Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Iowa.

      1977-79      Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, McMaster University.

      1972-80      Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University.

Professional Appointments:

      2003-08          Co-Editor, Journal of Labor Economics.

      1996-           Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

      2000-           Institute for Research on Poverty, Affiliate, University of Wisconsin.

     2001-          Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Steering Committee,

      1985-95      Member, Board of Editors, American Economic Review.

      1990-93      Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Economics.

      1990-97      Associate Editor, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics

Grants and Awards

Christensen Award in Empirical Economics, University of Wisconsin, 2010 (with Rebecca Lessem).

Fellow, Society of Labor Economists, 2008-

Fellow, Econometric Society, 2005-

Christensen Award in Empirical Economics, University of Wisconsin, 2005 (with Shintaro Yamguchi).

NICHD Grant, “Economic and Family Determinants of Migration Dynamics,” (with James R. Walker), 2004-06.

National Science Foundation Grant SES 0112288, “Economic Influences on Migration Decisions of Young Workers,” (with James R. Walker), 2001-04.

Christensen Award in Empirical Economics, University of Wisconsin, 2001 (with Limor Golan).

Vilas Associate, University of Wisconsin, 1998-00.

National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9410711, "Repeated Bargaining with Persistent Private Information: Structural Estimation of Screening Equilibria," 1994-99.

Christensen Award in Empirical Economics, University of Wisconsin, 1996 (with Robert Lemke).

National Science Foundation Grant SES-9123263, "Empirical Applications of Strategic Bargaining Models", 1992-94.

National Science Foundation Grant SES-8910930, "Tests of Strategic Bargaining Models using Data on Strikes and Wage Settlements", 1989-91.

National Science Foundation Grant SES-8607771 (Co-PI with Robert Forsythe and Barry Sopher): "An Experimental Study of Private Information Theories of Strikes," 1986-89.

National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1987-88.

National Science Foundation Grant SES-8510539 (Co-PI with Robert Forsythe): "An Experimental Study of Strikes," 1985-86.

National Science Foundation Grant SES-8309003 (Principal Investigator): "Equilibrium Labor Market Fluctuations: Theories and Evidence," 1983-85.

University Faculty Scholarship award, University of Iowa, 1991-1993.

Graduate student teaching award, University of Iowa, 1982-83, 1986-87, and 1989-90.

Prize Winner, Economics of Labor Unions Prize Contest; Center for Study of Public Choice, 1979.

Publications :

"Uniformly Optimal Infinite Horizon Plans," (with Peter J. Hammond), International Economic Review, 1979, 283-96.

"The Estimation of Partial Adjustment Models with Rational Expectations," Econometrica, 1979, 1441-1456.

"Bonding and the Enforcement of Labor Contracts," Economics Letters, 1979, 61-66.

"Pareto Optimality and the Economics of Strike Duration," Journal of Labor Research, 1980, 77-94.

"The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Payments on Strike Duration," in Unemployment Compensation: Studies and Research, Volume 2, National Commission on Unemployment Compensation, 1980, 467-483.

"The Existence of Expected Utility Maximizing Decisions when Utility is Unbounded," Econometrica, 1981, 215-8.

"The Employment-Real Wage Relationship: An International Study," (with P. T. Geary), Journal of Political Economy, 1982, 854-71.

"The Duration of Contract Strikes in U.S. Manufacturing," Journal of Econometrics, 28 (1985) 5-28.

"The Economics of Strikes," in Orley Ashenfelter and Richard Layard, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics, New York: North-Holland, 1986, 1091-1137.

"Do Big Countries Win Tariff Wars?" (with R. Riezman), International Economic Review, 29(1), February 1988, 81-85.

"An Econometric Analysis of Fluctuations in Aggregate Labor Supply and Demand," Econometrica, 56(2), March 1988, 317-333.

"Equilibrium Interpretations of Employment and Real Wage Variations," in Stanley Fischer, Ed., NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1988, MIT Press, 157-205.

"Simultaneous Equations Bias in Disaggregated Econometric Models," Review of Economic Studies, January 1989, 151-156.

"Strategic Bargaining Models and Interpretation of Strike Data," (with Robert Wilson), Journal of Applied Econometrics, December 1989 (Supplement), Vol. 4, S87-S130.

"Optimal Tariff Equilibria with Customs Unions" (with R. Riezman), Canadian Journal of Economics, February 1990, 70-83.

"Can Strategic Bargaining Models Explain Collective Bargaining Data?" (with Robert Wilson), American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May 1990, 80 (2), 405-409.

"Theories of Bargaining Delays," (with Robert Wilson), Science, Vol. 249, 7 September 1990, 1124-1128.

"Dividing a Shrinking Pie: An Experimental Study of Strikes in Bargaining Games with Complete Information," (with Robert Forsythe and Barry Sopher) in Mark Isaac, editor, Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 4, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1991, 223-268.

“An Experimental Analysis of Strikes in Bargaining Games with One-Sided Private Information,” (with Robert Forsythe and Barry Sopher), American Economic Review, March 1991, 253-278.

“Bargaining with Private Information,” (with Robert Wilson), Journal of Economic Literature, March 1993, 45-104.

“Repeated Contract Negotiations with Private Information,” Japan and the World Economy, 7 (1995), 447-472.

“The Elusive Effects of Minimum Wages,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 1995, 1949-1965.

“Minimum Wage Regulation,” The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 1998.

“Repeated Bargaining with Persistent Private Information,” Review of Economic Studies, 68, October 2001, 719-755.

“Uniqueness of Positive Fixed Points for Increasing Concave Functions on Rⁿ: An Elementary Result,” Review of Economic Dynamics, 4, October 2001, 893-899 (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1006/redy.2001.0133).

“Output and Price Level Effects of Monetary Uncertainty in a Matching Model,” (with Brett Katzman and Neil Wallace), Journal of Economic Theory, 108(2), February 2003, 217-255 (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/S0022-0531(03)00030-9)

“Strikes,” The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, 2008.

“Coalition-Proof Trade and the Friedman Rule in the Lagos-Wright Model,”( (with Tai-wei Hu and Neil Wallace), Journal of Political Economy, 117(1) February, 2009, 116-137.

“Wages, Welfare Benefits and Migration,”(with James R. Walker), Journal of Econometrics, 156(1), May, 2010, 229-238.

“Private Information, Wage Bargaining and Employment Fluctuations,” Review of Economic Studies ,77, April 2010, 633-664.

“The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions,” (with James R. Walker), Econometrica, 79(1), January 2011, 211-251

“Modeling Individual Migration Decisions,” (with James R. Walker), in Zimmermann, Klaus F. and A. F. Constant (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2013, forthcoming.

“Open Borders,” Review of Economic Dynamics, April 2013, forthcoming.

Book Reviews and Comments

"Comment on 'Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem', by Blanchard and Summers," in Stanley Fischer, Ed., NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1986, MIT Press, 78-85.

Review of Labor Demand, by Daniel S. Hamermesh, Journal of Economic Literature, September 1995, 1371-3.

Review of Rewarding Work, by Edmund S. Phelps, Journal of Economic Literature, September 1999, 1202-3.

Review of Advances in economics and econometrics, edited by David M. Kreps and Kenneth F. Wallis, Journal of Economic Literature, September 1999, 1184-6.

“Comment on ‘Job Loss, Job Finding, and Unemployment in the U.S. Economy over the Past Fifty Years’, by Robert E. Hall,” in Mark Gertler and Kenneth Rogoff, Eds., NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2005, MIT Press, 159-164.

Work in Progress (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jkennan/research)

“Average Switching Costs in Dynamic Logit Models,” January 2008.

“A Note on Discrete Approximations of Continuous Distributions,” September 2006.

Unpublished Papers

"Bargaining and Strikes with Two-Sided Private Information," presented to the Econometric Society, Berkeley, June 1987; revised August 1987.

"Why Does the Information Matrix Test Reject Too Often? A Diagnosis of Some Monte Carlo Symptoms," (with George Neumann), January 1988.

"Inflation Precedes Recession: An Empirical Re-Examination of the Phillips Curve" (with P. T. Geary), paper presented to the Econometric Society, New York, December 1988.

"Screening Models of Bargaining with Private Information: An Empirical Application," (with Robert Wilson), presented at the World Congress of the Econometric Society, August 1990; revised January 1991.

"Repeated Wage Bargaining with Private Information," (with Robert Wilson), January 1992.

"Stationary Equilibrium in a Repeated Bargaining Game with Serially Correlated Private Information," presented at the European Economic Association Annual Congress, Dublin, August 1992.

"Repeated Contract Negotiations with Transient Private Information," presented at the Society for Economic Dynamics and Control Annual Meetings, Nafplio, June 1993.

"Information Cycles in Repeated Contracts," presented at the NBER Summer Institute, July 1993.

“Informational Conflict and Employment Fluctuations,” revised November 2003.

“Informational Rents in Bargaining with Serially Correlated Valuations,” December 1998.

Recent Seminar Presentations and Conference Activities:

Vanderbilt University (invited seminar), April 2008.

Cowles Foundation Conference, Yale University (invited participant), June 2008.

CIC Conference on Human Capital and Development (invited paper), Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, June 2008.

Chicago Workshop on Black-White Inequality (discussant), University of Chicago, October 2008.

University of Calgary (invited seminar), October 2008.

Concordia University (invited seminar), October 2008.

Analytical Labor Economics Conference (discussant), University College London, November 2008.