Karol Mazur-Peking University HSBC Business School(PHBS)

Assistant Professor

Karol Mazur

Ph.D. in Economics, , European University Institute

Research Interests:Macroeconomics, Development, Human Capital, Labor Markets

0755-2603 2293

kmazur@phbs.pku.edu.cn

Office: Rm. 665, PHBS Building

Biography

Education

Ph.D. Economics, European University Institute (EUI), Italy, 2014 - 2019.

Visiting Ph.D. Student, London School of Economics (LSE), UK, 2016 - 2017.

M.Sc. Economics, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Austria, 2012 - 2014.

B.A. Economics, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Poland, 2009 - 2012.

Experience

Junior Research Fellow in Economics, Trinity College, University of Oxford, 2019 - 2022.

Research Teaching

Publications

1. Risky Human Capital Accumulation with Endogenous Skill Premium Economic Theory Bulletin (forthcoming).

2. A Note on Pessimism in Education and its Economic Consequences Journal of Economic Inequality (2021).

3. Can Welfare Abuse Be Welfare Improving? Journal of Public Economics (2016).

Working Papers

1. College Education and Income Contingent Loans in Equilibrium (joint with K. Matsuda), resubmitted to Journal of Monetary Economics.

2. Sharing Risk to Avoid Tragedy: Informal Insurance and Irrigation in Village Economies, under revision for Journal of Development Economics.

3. Mutual Insurance and Land Security in Rural Ghana (joint with G. Manalis).

4. The Macroeconomic Impact of Agricultural Input Subsidies (joint with L. Tetenyi).