Associate Professor



Education: PhD
Position: Associate Professor, 2006



Administrative Assistant: Bodil Krog
Mail: jkennes@remove.this.econ.au.dk
Phone: +45 8942 1974
Office: Room 129, Building 1326
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John Kennes is currently Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus. He grew up in Canada and received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 1996. His research and areas of interest are in labor economics, monetary economics, family economics and the economics of asymmetric information. He is a core scientific member of the Centre for Applied Microeconometrics, Centre for Industrial Economics and the Labor Market Dynamics Group. He has publications in international journals such as the Journal of Economic Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, and the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He is currently working on projects dealing with equilibrium heterogeneity, irreversible investments and matching frictions

Teaching Interests      

• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics

Research Interests  

• Labor Economics
• Monetary Economics
• Economics of Asymmetric Information

Selected Publications         

• Kennes, J., King, I., Julien, B (forthcoming), "Implementing the Mortensen Rule", Journal of Macroeconomics
• Kennes, J., King, I., Julien, B (2009), "Directed Search, Unemployment, and Public Policy", Canadian Journal of Economics
• Kennes, J., King, I., Julien, B (2008), "Bidding for Money", Journal of Economic Theory
• Kennes, J. and A. Schiff (2008), "Quality Infomediation in Search Markets5", International Journal of Industrial Organization
• Kennes, J. and A. Schiff (2007), "Simple Reputation Systems", Scandinavian Journal of Economics
• Kennes, J., King, I., Julien, B. (2006) "Residual Wage Dispersion and Coordination Unemployment", International Economic Review
• Kennes, J (2006) Competitive Auctions: Theory and Application, In Structural Models of Wage and Employment Dynamics, Editors:  Henning Bunzel, Bent Christensen, George Neumann, and Jean-Marc Robin, North-Holland.