Rate My Professor Madsen, FASSA

Jakob Madsen, FASSA, is Professor in the Department of Economics at the UWA Business School, University of Western Australia, where he has served since January 2019. He holds a PhD from the Australian National University and a Cand. Oecon (MEc) from Aarhus University. Before returning to UWA, Madsen occupied the Xiaokai Yang Chair in Business and Economics at Monash University. His earlier academic appointments include professorial positions at the University of Copenhagen and Brunel University London, as well as a Senior Lectureship at the University of Western Australia from 1997 to 2000. He also lectured at the University of Southampton and Flinders University. Prior to academia, he worked as a financial analyst and Deputy Chief Economist at the Bank of Jutland in Denmark.

A distinguished macroeconomist, Madsen's research encompasses endogenous and unified economic growth models, the macroeconomics of inequality, the history of economic growth, international trade, income inequality, macrofinance, stock and house price valuation, and applied econometrics. He has authored over 144 peer-reviewed articles in premier journals such as the Journal of Economic Growth, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Economic Journal, and European Economic Review. Key publications include "Technology Spillover through Trade and TFP Convergence: 135 Years of Evidence for the OECD Countries" (Journal of International Economics, 2007), "The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis: Four Centuries of Evidence" (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010), "Semi-endogenous versus Schumpeterian Growth Models: Testing the Knowledge Production Function Using International Data" (Journal of Economic Growth, 2008), and "Trade Barriers and the Collapse of World Trade during the Great Depression" (Southern Economic Journal, 2001), which received the Georgescu-Roegen Prize for the best article in volumes 67-68. His scholarship has amassed more than 7,100 citations. Madsen was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2015 and served as an ARC Professorial Fellow from 2011 to 2015. He ranks among the top economists globally based on influential publications from 1994 to 1998.