Dr. Volker Hahn

Research Interests

Area M: Transparency in Monetary Policy, Information Asymmetries and Central Banks, Search and Matching Models of the Labor Market
Area P: Committees, Fairness and Reciprocity

Articles in Refereed Journals

Reciprocity and Voting, Games and Economic Behavior, 67(2), pp. 467-480, 2009.

Voting Transparency in a Monetary Union (together with Hans Gersbach), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 41(5), pp. 809-830, August 2009. An unpublished appendix to this paper can be downloaded here.

Search, Unemployment, and Age; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 33(6), pp. 1361-1378, June 2009.

Transparency of Central Bank Preferences, German Economic Review, 10(1), pp. 32-49, February 2009.

Committees and Reciprocity (together with Felix Mühe), Mathematical Social Sciences, 57(1), pp. 26-47, January 2009.

Committees, Sequential Voting and Transparency, Mathematical Social Sciences, 56(3), pp. 366-385, November 2008. Files used for numerical simulations can be downloaded here.

Should the Individual Voting Records of Central Bankers be Published? (together with Hans Gersbach), Social Choice and Welfare, 30(4), pp. 655-683, May 2008.

Fairness and Voting, Social Choice and Welfare, 28(4), pp. 591-605, June 2007.

Information Content of Wages and Monetary Policy (together with Hans Gersbach), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 39(1), pp. 133-149, February 2007.

Signaling and Commitment: Monetary versus Inflation Targeting (together with Hans Gersbach), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 10(5), pp. 595-624, June 2006.

Voting Transparency, Conflicting Interests and the Appointment of Central Bankers (together with Hans Gersbach), Economics and Politics, 16(3), pp. 321-345, November 2004.

Transparency in Monetary Policy: A Survey, ifo Studien, 48(3), pp. 429-455, 2002.

Other Publications

Book Review of "Handbook of Economic Growth 1; volumes A and B, Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (Eds.)" (together with Hans Gersbach), Journal of Development Economics, 90(2), pp. 323-325, November 2009.

Forward Guidance for Monetary Policy: Is It Desirable? (together with Hans Gersbach), in "Designing Central Banks", David Mayes, Geoffrey E. Wood (eds.), Routledge, 2009. Working paper version: CER-ETH working paper 08/84, 2008.

Inflation targeting and bank equity rules: Parallels and lessons (together with Hans Gersbach), voxEU.org, October 21, 2009.

Information Asymmetries, Transparency, and Monetary Policy; Phd Thesis, University of Heidelberg, 2001.

Working Papers

Why the Publication of Socially Harmful Information May Be Socially Desirable, CER-ETH working paper 09/122, 2009.

Monetary Policy Inclinations (together with Hans Gersbach), CEPR working paper 6761, 2008. updated version

Information Acquisition and Transparency in Committees (together with Hans Gersbach), 2009.

Banking-on-the-Average Rules (together with Hans Gersbach), CER-ETH working paper 09/107, 2009.

Information Acquisition by Price-Setters and Monetary Policy, CER-ETH working paper 07/73, 2007.

Constitutional Design: Separation of Financing and Project Decision (together with Hans Gersbach and Stephan Imhof), CER-ETH working paper 09/109, 2009.

Determinants of Trust in the European Central Bank (together with Justina A.V. Fischer), Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 695, Stockholm School of Economics, 2008.

The Mechanics of Banking-on-the-Average Rules (together with Hans Gersbach), mimeo, 2009.

Education and Experience