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Joseph Kopecky

Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics

Assistant Professor

Arts Building

Room 3022

Dublin

Ireland

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

15

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15

Scholarly Papers (15)

1.

An Aging Dynamo: Demographic Change and the Decline of Entrepreneurial Activity in the United States

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 30 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2017
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
Downloads 282 (270,229)
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aging, entrepreneurship, heterogeneous agent

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Population Age Structure and Secular Secular Stagnation: The Long Run Evidence

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Sep 2022
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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Secular stagnation, demographic transition, population aging, economic growth

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Wasted on the Young? Aging and Entrepreneurial Activity, Opportunity, and Skill

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 May 2022
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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Entrepreneurship, Population aging, Entrepreneurial skill, Opportunity, Demographics

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Okay Boomer... Excess Money Growth, Inflation, and Population Aging

Kopecky, J. (2022). Okay boomer… Excess money growth, inflation, and population aging. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1-36. doi:10.1017/S1365100522000384
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
Downloads 98 (699,467)
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inflation, aging, money growth

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Housing Policy, Homeownership, and Inequality

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Oct 2024
Simone Cima and Joseph Kopecky
Central Bank of Ireland and Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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Housing Policy, Macroprudential policy, Wealth inequality, Housing, Renting

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Less Perfect Unions: Average Treatment Effects of Currency Unions and the EMU on Trade Over Time

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Mar 2019
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
Downloads 63 (933,592)
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currency union, trade

The Murder-Suicide of the Rentier: Population Aging and the Risk Premium

NBER Working Paper No. w26943
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2022
Joseph Kopecky and Alan M. Taylor
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics and Columbia University
Downloads 59 (986,385)

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The Murder-Suicide of the Rentier: Population Aging and the Risk Premium

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14576
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 May 2020 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2020
Joseph Kopecky and Alan M. Taylor
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics and Columbia University
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demographics, Life-Cycle Model, OLG model, Rates of return, risky assets, safe assets, secular stagnation

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A Match Made in Maastricht: Estimating the Treatment Effect of the Euro on Trade

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Nov 2022
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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Currency Unions, Trade, Gravity, PPML, Propensity Score, Monetary Union, euro

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Age Structure, Investment, and Secular Stagnation: The Long Run Evidence

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 22 Jan 2022
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
Downloads 57 (1,000,027)

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Secular stagnation, Population aging, Investment growth

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The Age for Austerity? Population Age Structure and Fiscal Consolidation Multipliers

Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 73, September, 2022
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2022
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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Fiscal policy, Fiscal multipliers, Population aging, demographic change

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The Savings Glut of the Old: Population Aging, the Risk Premium, and the Murder-Suicide of the Rentier

NBER Working Paper No. w29944
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2023
Joseph Kopecky and Alan M. Taylor
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics and Columbia University
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Latent Human Capital and the Immigrant Mobility Advantage: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Apr 2026
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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JEL classification codes: E24, J15, J24, J61, O15 Immigration, intergenerational mobility, human capital, assimilation, general equilibrium

Latent Human Capital and the Immigrant Mobility Advantage: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 28 Apr 2026
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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Immigration, intergenerational mobility, human capital, misallocation, general equilibrium

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A union divided? The euro and trade in the core and the periphery

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Nov 2025
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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Euro, Currency unions, Trade, Gravity

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E Pluribus Euro: Minimum Fiscal Capacity for Collective Trade Policy in a Currency Union

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Apr 2026
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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JEL classification codes: F13, F15, F42, F45, E62, currency unions, trade policy, economic coercion, Eurozone, strategic autonomy, Fiscal Unions

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The Comparative Advantage of Age

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Apr 2026
Joseph Kopecky
Trinity College (Dublin) - Department of Economics
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Comparative advantage, Population aging, Trade, Demographics, Ricardian model