Claus Thustrup Kreiner
Professor
Department of Economics
Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 København K, 35 Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building: 35-2-34
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Personal Details
Born November 1969 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Married to Signe Thustrup Kreiner
Two Children: Mads born in 2001 and Marie born in 2002
Change of last name in Spring 2000 from Hansen to Kreiner
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1998
Visiting Ph.D. student, University of York, 1996
M.Sc. in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1994
B.Sc. in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1991
Professional Experience (After Ph.D.)
Director, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), CoE founded in 2017, financed by a grant for the Danish National Research Foundation, 2017-
Director, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), 2005-
Director, WEST, a Center of Research Excellence of the University of Copenhagen, 2011-2013
Professor, University of Copenhagen, 2005-
Visiting Scholar, Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at UC Berkeley, 2003
Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, 1999-2004
Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, 1997-1999
Editorial Service
Co-Editor. Journal of Public Economics, 2014-
Associate Editor, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013-
Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economics, 2009-2014
Board of Editors, Danish Journal of Economics (Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift), 2000-2016
Miscellaneous
Area Director of Public Economics, CESifo network, 2019-
Board of Management, International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), 2019-
Appointed Knight of The Order of Dannebrog by HMS Dronning Margrethe II, 2018
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Econometric Society Winter Meetings 2018
Co-chair of the Scientific Committee, Annual Congress of the International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF), 2018
Member of Programme Committee for the 2017 Annual Congress of the European Economic Association 2017
Co-chair of the Danish Economic Council (vismand), 2010-2014
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, 2009-
Member of the Danish Tax Commission, 2008-2009
Deputy Member, The Danish Competition Council, 2009
Grant from the Danish Social Science Research Council, 2009
Grant from the International Growth Center (IGC), 2009
The Invisible Hand Award (granted by the Society of Social Economics), 2006
Grant from the Danish Social Science Research Council, 2003, 2006
EPRU-Network Research Grants, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015
Best Teacher Award (granted by the Study Board of Economics at University of Copenhagen), 2002
The Invisible Hand Award (granted by the Society of Social Economics), 2001
Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network, University of Münich, 2000-
Grant from the Danish National Research Foundation (received in cooperation with other EPRU members), 1998-2003
Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Copenhagen, 1997-
Zeuthen Award (granted to the best Master Thesis in Economics at University of Copenhagen), 1994
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