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Contact Details

Prof. Dr. Jens Wrona
Chair for New Economic Geography and East Asia

Mercator School of Management (MSM)
Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST)
University of Duisburg-Essen
Lotharstraße 65, 47057 Duisburg
Building: LC, Room: 118

Phone: +49 (0) 203 38 93653
E-mail: jens.wrona.uni@gmail.com
Website: jenswrona.com

Positions

2021 - present
University Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany
Mercator School of Management (MSM) & Institute for East Asian Studies (IN-EAST)
Professor


2019 - 2021

University Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany
Mercator School of Management (MSM) & Institute for East Asian Studies (IN-EAST)
Assistant professor (with Tenure Track)


2015 - 2019
Heinrich-Heine-University (HHU) Düsseldorf, Germany
Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)

Assistant professor


2018 -2019
Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany
TUM School of Mangement
-- TUM Campus Heilbronn
Professor


2014 - 2015
Heinrich-Heine-University (HHU) Düsseldorf, Germany
Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Post-doctoral researcher


2009 - 2014
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Chair of International Economics, Prof. Dr. Udo Kreickemeier
Ph.D. student

AffiliationS

2020-present
Principle Investigator RTG 2484 Regional Disparaties & Economic Policy

2019 -present
DICE External Research Affiliate
RGS Junior Faculty

2018 - present
CESifo Research Network Affiliate

Education

2009 - 2014
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Ph.D. in Economics

2004 - 2009

Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Diploma in International Economics (with regional focus Japan)

2004 - 2008

Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany; Dôshisha University Kyôto, Japan
B.A. in Japanese Studies

Publications

Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition (with Egger, H., Kreickemeier, U. and Moser, C.), Economic Journal 132(644), 2022, pp. 1449-88, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab078.

Trade in tasks: Revisiting the wage and employment effects of offshoring (with Kohler, W.), Canadian Journal of Economics 54(2), 2021 pp. 648-76, https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12507.

Border Effects without Borders: What Divides Japan's Internal Trade? International Economic Review 59(3), 2018 pp. 1209-62, https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12302.

Two-Way Migration between Similar Countries (with Kreickemeier, U.), World Economy 40(1), 2017, pp.182-206, https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12377.

Offshoring domestic jobs (with Egger, H. and Kreickemeier, U.), Journal of International Economics 97(1), 2015, pp. 112-25, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2015.03.010.

Trade, tasks, and training: The effect of offshoring on individual skill upgrading
(with Hogrefe, J.), Canadian Journal of Economics
48(4), 2015, pp. 1537-60,
https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12156.

Working Papers

Tomoya Mori and Jens Wrona "Centrality Bias in Inter-city Trade," RIETI Discussion Paper 21-E-035, April 2021.

Udo Kreickemeier and Jens Wrona "Industrialisation and the Big Push in a Global Economy," CEGE Discussion Paper No. 388, February 2020.

Florian Knauth and Jens Wrona "There and Back Again: A Simple Theory of Planned Return Migration," DICE Discussion Paper No. 290, May 2018

Hartmut Egger, Udo Kreickemeier, Christoph Moser, and Jens Wrona "Offshoring and Job Polarisation between Firms," CESifo Working Paper No. 6142, October 2016.

Scientific Presentations

2020
Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association (EEA) Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (VfS) Cologne, Germany; Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University Göttingen, Germany.

2019
U.S. Meeting of the Urban Economic Association (UEA) Philadelphia, U.S.; Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association, Leipzig, Germany; CESifo Area Conference: Global Economy, CESifo, Munich, Germany; European Meeting of the Urban Economic Association (UEA) Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University Göttingen, Germany.

2018
CESifo Area Conference: Global Economy, CESifo, Munich, Germany; Moscow International Trade Workshop, NES - New Economic School, Moscow; V. Urban Economics Workshop, IEB - University of Barcelona, Barcelona.

2017

Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University Göttingen, Germany; Dresden Conference "International Trade and Production", TU Dresden, Germany; Annual Meeting of the European Trade Study Group (ETSG), University of Florence & EUI Florence, Italy.

2016

Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association, University of Augsburg, Germany; Fifth International Conference "Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics", Higher School of Economics St. Petersburg, Russia; Midwest International Trade Meetings, Rochester University, U.S.; Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), ISCTE - University Institute Lisbon, Portugal; 9th FIW-Research Conference "International Economics", University of Vienna, Austria; Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University Göttingen, Germany.

2015

Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), University of Mannheim, Germany; Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association, University of Münster, Germany; European Meeting of the Urban Economic Association (UEA) at the Meeting of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Lisbon, Portugal; Midwest International Trade Meetings, PennState University, U.S.; Annual Meeting of the European Trade Study Group (ETSG), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France; Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University Göttingen, Germany.

2014
Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), WU Vienna, Austria; Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University of Göttingen, Germany

2013
Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association, University of Düsseldorf, Germany; Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers, University College London (UCL), UK; Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University of Göttingen, Germany; Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Nottingham, UK; Mainz Workshop on Trade and Macroeconomics, University of Mainz, Germany

2012
Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association, University of Göttingen, Germany; Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), ZEW Mannheim, Germany; Annual Meeting of the European Trade Study Group, KU Leuven, Belgium; RIEF Doctoral Meetings in International Trade and International Finance, Bocconi University Milano, Italy; International Workshop “Economics of Global Interactions: New Perspectives on Trade, Factor Mobility and Development” University of Bari, Italy; IOS/APB Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe, Lake Starnberg, Germany; Ruhr Graduate School (RGS) Doctoral Conference in Economics, University of Duisburg, Germany; Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University of Göttingen, Germany; Tübingen-Hohenheim X-mas Workshop, University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart), Germany; Doktoranden-Workshop der Universitäten Hohenheim, Tübingen & des IAW Tübingen, University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart), Germany

2011
Annual Meeting of the European Trade Study Group, University of Copenhagen & Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) Annual Postgraduate Conference, University of Nottingham, UK; Ruhr Graduate School (RGS) Doctoral Conference in Economics, University of Dortmund, Germany; München-Tübingen International Economics Workshop, Ifo Institute for Economic Research Munich, Germany; Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University of Göttingen, Germany; Tübingen-Hohenheim X-mas Workshop, University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart), Germany

2010

Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, University of Glasgow, UK; Annual Meeting of the European Trade Study Group, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Asian Dynamics in a Global Context, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Göttinger Workshop für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University of Göttingen, Germany; Tübingen-Hohenheim X-mas Workshop, University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart), Germany

2009

Tübingen-Hohenheim X-mas Workshop, University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart), Germany

Invited Presentations at Faculty and Research seminars

2021
Research Seminar at the Tokyo University "Centrality Bias in Inter-city Trade" scheduled for January).

2020
Research Seminar at the Tingergen-Institut Amsterdam "Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition".

2019
Research Seminar at the University of Passau "Inter-city Trade"; Reseach Seminar at the University of Mainz "Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition"; Research Seminar at the RWI Essen: "Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition".

2018
Research Seminar at the University of Tübingen: "Inter-city Trade"; Research Seminar at the University of Bayreuth: "Inter-city Trade"; Research Seminar at the University of Nürnberg-Erlangen: "Exporting and Offshoring with Monopsonistic Competition".

2017
Research Seminar at the University of Würzburg: "Offshoring and Job Polarisation between Firms"; Research Seminar at the University of Bergen: "Industrialisation and the Big Push in a Global Economy"; Research Seminar at the University of Tübingen:  "Industrialisation and the Big Push in a Global Economy"; Research Seminar at the University of Hohenheim: "Industrialisation and the Big Push in a Global Economy"; Research Seminar at the University of Munich: "Offshoring and Job Polarisation between Firms"; Research Seminar at Shiga University (Hikone, Japan): "Offshoring and Job Polarisation between Firms".

2016
Research Seminar at the University of Göttingen: "Industrialisation and the Big Push in a Global Economy"; Research Seminar at the University of Kyôto: "Migration as a Signal"; Research Seminar at the University of Salzburg: "Offshoring and Job Polarisation between Firms".

2015
International Trade Seminar at the London School of Economics  (LSE): "Border Effects without Borders: What divides Japan's Internal Trade?"; Research Seminar at the University of Bayreuth: "Border Effects without Borders: What divides Japan's Internal Trade?".

Organised Conferences and Workshops

  2019: Heilbronn Workshop on Innovation, Technological Change, and International Trade,
  co-organised with Hanna Hottenrott (TUM)

  2018: Tuscany Workshop on Firms in a Global Economy,
  co-organised with Andrea Ciani (HHU Düsseldorf, DICE)

Research Stays

  2018 (Oct./Nov.) Kyôto University, Japan
  2017 (Oct.) Kyôto University, Japan 
  2016
(Sep.) Kyôto University, Japan

Refereeing

Canadian Journal of Economics, Cities, Economica, Economic Journal, Economic Letters, Economic Systems, European Economic Review, German Economic Review, Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Japan and the World Economy, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Political Economy,  Manchester School, LABOUR, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Review of International Economics, Review of World Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, The World Economy

Professional Affiliations

American Economic Association, European Economic Association, German Economic Association

External Funding

DFG Research Training Group 2484 (10/2019-10/2024) "Regional Disparities and Economic Policy" (Grant No. 397383192).

DFG Research Grant (09/2016-09/2017)
"Agglomeration and the Spatial Structure of Transportation Costs" (Grant No. 632453).

Awards

Rolf-Schwarz-Schütte Prize (2015) for the best publication record of a junior researcher at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) in 2015

Young Author Best Paper Award (Reinhard-Selten-Prize) (2015) for the paper:
"Border Effects Without Borders: What Divides Japan's Internal Trade?"
at the Annual Conference of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik)


Young Author Best Paper Award (by the Review of World Economics) (2015) for the paper:
"Border Effects Without Borders: What Divides Japan's Internal Trade?"

at the Annual Meeting of the European Trade Study Group (ETSG)

RWT-Reutligen Best PhD Thesis Award (2015)
University of Tübingen & RWT Reutlingen

Norbert-Kloten-Prize for Applied Economic Research (2010)
Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) Tübingen and the German Federal Bank


Prize for Excellence in the Studies of Economics (2009)
University of Tübingen & KPMG

Teaching

  Lectures:
  - Natural Economic Experiments -- Lessons from Japan  (1st year Master), winter term 2019/20,  
     2020/21 at the University of Duisburg-Essen
  - Empirical Research in International Economics (1st year Master/PhD), winter term    
    2019/20, 2020/21 at the University of Duisburg-Essen
  - Labour Economics (1st year Master), winter term 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 at the
    University of Düsseldorf
  - International Trade (1st year Master), winter term 2014/15, 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 at the
    University of Düsseldorf
  - International Trade (3rd year Bachelor), summer term 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 at the
    University of Düsseldorf
  - Intermediate Microeconomics (1st year Bachelor), summer term 2013 at the University of
    Tübingen

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