Axel Gottfries

Reader (Associate Professor), University of Edinburgh

Research interests: Macroeconomics, Labor economics 

Contact information: axel(dot)gottfries(at)gmail.com. CV: Link

Publications

A Job Ladder Model with Stochastic Employment Opportunities [online appendix, replication files]

with Jake Bradley, Quantitative Economics, November 2021

Firm Dynamics, On-the-Job Search and Labor Market Fluctuations  [online appendix, replication files]

with Mike Elsby, Review of Economic Studies, May 2022

Returns to On-the-Job Search and Wage Dispersion

with Coen Teulings, Labour Economics, January 2023

Vacancy Chains  [replication files]

with Mike Elsby, Ryan Michaels and David Ratner  [updated: November 2024; accepted Journal of Political Economy]

Labor Market Dynamics and Growth [online appendix, replication files]

with Jake Bradley [updated: May 2025; accepted Journal of the European Economic Association]

Working papers

Heterogeneous Mobility in Dynamic Labor Market Equilibrium

with Michael Amior and Mike Elsby [updated: May 2025]

Wage Fixing

with Gregor Jarosch [updated: February 2025]

Dynamic Monopsony with Large Firms and Noncompetes

with Gregor Jarosch [updated: December 2023; r&r Econometrica] 

Wage Adjustment in Efficient Long-Term Employment Relationships 

with  Mike Elsby, Pawel Krolikowski, and Gary Solon [updated: October 2024; r&r American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics]

Bargaining with Renegotiation in Models with On-the-Job Search 

[updated: October 2022; r&r Review of Economic Dynamics] 

Work in progress

How Long is the Long run?  Theory and Evidence from a Swedish Tax Reform 

with Timo Boppart, Hannes Malmberg and Kurt Mitman