Bent E. Sorensen
    Department of Economics
    University of Houston
    204 McElhinney Hall
    Houston, TX 77204
    Phone: (713) 743-3841
    Fax: (713) 743-3798
    e-mail: bent.sorensen@mail.uh.edu

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    Curriculum Vitae

   FORTHCOMING ARTICLES:

   Misallocation, Property Rights, and Access to Finance: Evidence from Within and Across Africa (NBER volume)

   Interaction Effects in Econometrics (Empirical Economics). With Hatice Ozer-Balli.

   Leverage Across Firms, Banks, and Countries (Journal of International Economics). With Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Sevcan Yesiltas.

   The Effect of Education on Equity Holdings (BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy---Contributions). With With Dmytro Hryshko and Maria Luengo-Prado.

   Subjective Well-Being: Keeping Up With the Perception of the Joneses. (Social Indicators Research). With Cahit Guven.

 

   Risk Sharing Through Capital Gains (Canadian Journal of Economics). With Faruk Balli and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan.

 

    RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

 

    Childhood Determinants of Risk Aversion: The Long Shadow of Compulsory Education (Quantitative Economics, February 2011). With Dmytro Hryshko and Maria Jose Luengo-Prado.

  

    Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States? (Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2010 ). With Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Ariell Reshef, and Oved Yosha.

 

     House Price and Risk Sharing (Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2010). With Dmytro Hryshko and Maria Luengo-Prado.

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  RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

 

 

     The Marginal Value of Cash, Cash Flow Sensitivities, and Bank-Finance Shocks in Nonlisted Firms (version October 2011). With Charlotte Ostergaard and Amir Sasson.

 

     Deep Financial Integration and Volatility (version April 2012). With Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych.

 

   OTHER CURRENT RESEARCH:

 

   Risk Sharing and Portfolio Allocation in EMU.  European Economy Economic Papers No. 334, European Commission (July 2008). With Yuliya Demyanyk and Charlotte

Ostergaard.



      Current  TEACHING:

     

      Econ 7344 Macroeconomics II: Spring 2012

 

     Econ 7395 Intranational Macroeconomis: Spring 2012

 

     Past TEACHING:

     ECON 7344 Macroeconomics II:    Spring 2007  Spring 2008 Spring 2009 Spring 2010 Spring 2011

     ECON 8344 Macroeconomics III: Fall 2005 Fall 2007

    ECON 8346 Dynamic Macro: Spring 2005 Spring 2007 Fall 2009 Fall 2011

 

    ECON 7395 Intranational Macroeconomis: Syllabus 2010