Asger Lau Andersen

Asger Lau Andersen serves as Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, conducting research at the intersection of microeconomic household behavior and macroeconomic policy. His work examines how households navigate economic shocks including job loss, wealth fluctuations, and monetary policy adjustments, with significant contributions to understanding household finance and political economy dynamics.

His research spans Household Economics, Political Economics, Monetary Policy, Labour Economics, Public Economics, and Inequality. Key investigations include household leverage's impact on mental health, spending responses to wealth shocks, self-insurance mechanisms against job loss, and monetary policy's distributional consequences. Methodologically, he leverages high-frequency administrative data and quasi-experimental designs to isolate causal effects in household decision-making.

Analysis of his 2021-2023 publications reveals a cohesive focus on micro-macro linkages: household responses to economic stressors consistently demonstrate heterogeneous effects across income groups, particularly regarding inequality transmission channels. His CEPR discussion papers and VoxEU policy analyses emphasize empirical rigor through natural experiments like stock market quasi-lotteries and high-frequency job loss datasets.

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