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Jonas Gathen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), Tilburg University. He earned his PhD in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) in 2024 and was a postdoctoral researcher at CEMFI, Madrid, during 2024/25 before joining Tilburg University. His research spans macroeconomics of development, political economy, and structural change.
His research interests include long-run economic growth, firm dynamics, structural transformation, income inequality, political connections, and public sector efficiency in developing countries. He combines rich micro data with structural macroeconomic models to analyze economy-wide changes over decades. Key themes include adjustment lags in development, demand-driven structural change, and the political economy of state-firm interactions.
His recent and ongoing work analyzes growth in Indonesia, inequality in India, and public sector worker selection. His publications and research agenda reflect a focus on identifying fundamental drivers of growth, evaluating policy impacts, and understanding institutional evolution. He plans to apply for research grants and advise PhD students in these areas.
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He has advised or plans to advise graduate students, though specific names are not listed. He has led research projects on gentrification, market concentration, and product space evolution, often in collaboration with institutions in Switzerland, Mexico, and the UK. His methodological toolkit emphasizes structural modeling, nonparametric identification, and the use of high-frequency administrative and firm-level data.
