AZKARATE-ASKASUA, Miren

Miren Azkarate-Askasua is a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics. Her research focuses on the intersection between macroeconomics and labor economics but she also has broader interests in applied econometrics, international trade and industrial organization. Miren studied the misallocation and welfare effects of labor market power from firms and unions and the determinants of wages. During her time as a Max Weber Fellow she wants to extend her work to study the dynamic aspects of labor market imperfections and labor mobility.

Miren did her Ph.D. at Toulouse School of Economics in France under the supervision of Christian Hellwig. Prior to this, she studied at Université Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universidad del País Vasco.

Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of Ph.D. Researchers

During her time at Toulouse, Miren has been a teaching assistant of macroeconomics at undergraduate and graduate levels. She was also instructor of macroeconomics at the undergraduate level.