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Dennis WesselbaumDiploma (University of Kiel), Doctorate (University of Hamburg)

Tel: 64 3 479 8643
Email: dennis.wesselbaum@otago.ac.nz
Room 622, 6th Floor, Otago Business School

I am a macroeconomist with both theoretical and empirical interests. My research activity is split between macroeconomic topics and the impacts of climate change. Precisely, my research interests are Macroeconomics (esp. Monetary and Fiscal Policy), Quantitative Economics, Economic Growth, Migration, and, more generally, the interaction between climate, environment, and society.

I am the Editor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Economic Papers (NZEP), the journal of the New Zealand Association of Economists Inc. (NZAE).

Dennis's CV

For a current CV, please see my personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/denniswesselbaum/home

Selected publications

For the full list, please see my CV.

"Revisiting the Climate Driver and Inhibitor Mechanisms of International Migration". Climate and Development, forthcoming.

"Gone with the Wind: International Migration", joint with Amelia Aburn. Global and Planetary Change, 178: 96-109, 2019.

"Jobless Recoveries: Interaction between Financial and Search Frictions". Journal of Macroeconomics, 61, 2019.

"Moving Towards Happiness?", joint with Arthur Grimes. International Migration, 57(3): 20-40, 2019.

"Time-Varying Volatility in the U.S. Labor Market", Journal of Applied Economics, 21(1): 197-213, 2018.

"Catastrophe Theory and the Financial Crisis", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 64(4): 376-391, 2017.

"The Intensive Margin Puzzle and Labor Market Adjustment Costs", Macroeconomic Dynamics, 20(6): 1458-1476, 2016.

"Sectoral Labor Market Effects of Fiscal Spending", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 34: 19-35, 2015.

"What drives Endogenous Growth in the United States?", The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), 15(1): 183-221, 2015.

"Bubbles over the U. S. Business Cycle - A Macroeconometric Approach" (with Marc Luik), Journal of Macroeconomics, 40: 27-41, 2014.

"Evaluating Labor Market Reforms: A Normative Analysis(with Céline Poilly), Journal of Macroeconomics, 39: 156-170, 2014.

Teaching responsibilities

Preferred areas of research supervision

Dennis is especially interested in supervising research students in the following areas

  • Macroeconomics, esp. monetary and fiscal policy
  • Climate change
  • Drivers and impacts of migration
  • Financial mathematics, esp. models of conditional correlations and chaos

Publications

Minehan, S. N., & Wesselbaum, D. (2024). Gender, personality, and performance. Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics, 108, 102132. doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2023.102132

Swerdloff, S., Wesselbaum, D., & Stahlmann-Brown, P. (2023). Heterogeneity in climate change beliefs across New Zealand’s rural sector. Ecology & Society, 28(4), 10. doi: 10.5751/ES-14382-280410

Baryshnikova, N. V., & Wesselbaum, D. (2023). Air pollution and motor vehicle collisions in New York city. Environmental Pollution, 337, 122595. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122595

van Florenstein Mulder, T., & Wesselbaum, D. (2023). Does the RBNZ respond to exchange rate fluctuations? [Note]. New Zealand Economic Papers. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00779954.2023.2234593

Minehan, S., & Wesselbaum, D. (2023). Do climate change expectations drive migration? Evidence from migration flows towards OECD countries. Global & Planetary Change, 227, 104188. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104188

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