Merike Kukk CV

Vanemökonomist, Dr.
E-post: Merike.Kukk@eestipank.ee

Uurimisvaldkonnad:

Majapidamiste tarbimine, säästmine ja laenamine
Majapidamiste maksukäitumine
Kinnisvaraturg ja kinnisvarahinnad
Pangandussektori viivislaenud

Haridus:

2016 — Ph.D. majandusteaduses, Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
2004 — MA ärikorralduses, Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
1999 — BA majandusteaduses, Tartu Ülikool

Töökogemus:

2016 - Eesti Pank, rahapoliitika ja majandusuuringute osakond, ökonomist (koormus 0,6)
2016- Tallinna Tehnikakülikool, majandusteaduskond, dotsent (osakoormus)
2013, 2015 Eesti Pank, rahapoliitika ja majandusuuringute osakond, külalisuurija (osaline koormus)
2012-2016 Tallinna Tehnikakülikool, majandusteaduskond, teadur
2005-2008 SEB, Turundus- ja kommunikatsiooni-divisjon, direktori kt.
2000-2004 SEB, Turundus- ja kommunikatsiooni divisjon, projektijuht

Valik publikatsioone:

• What are the triggers for arrears on debt over a business cycle? Evidence from panel data, ilmumas 2021. aastal, autor Merike Kukk. International Journal of Finance and Economics.

• House price misalignments and economic growth in Europe, 2021, autorid Juan Carlos Cuestas, Merike Kukk ja  Natalia Levenko. Eesti Panga Toimetised, No. 1/2021.

• What explains the gender gap in wealth? Evidence from administrative data, 2021, autorid Jaanika Meriküll, Merike Kukk ja Tairi Rõõm. Review of Economics of the Household.

• The interaction between housing prices and housing credit: evidence from a country with rapid credit accumulation, 2020, autorid Juan Calos Cuestas ja Merike Kukk. Journal of Economic Studies.

• Cheating in Europe: underreporting of self-employment income in comparative perspective, 2020, autorid Merike Kukk, Alari Paulus ja Karsten Staehr. International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 27. lk. 363-390.

• The Spanish housing market: is it fundamentally broken?, 2020, autorid Juan Carlos Cuestas Olivares ja Merike Kukk. Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 27, No. 15, lk. 1295-1299.
• The gender wealth gap in Europe: A comparative study using a model averaging methodology, 2020, autorid Merike Kukk, Jaanika Meriküll ja Tairi Rõõm. Eesti Panga Toimetised, No. 7/2020.
• Alternative financing and the non-performing loans of the corporate sector in Estonia, 2020, autorid Merike Kukk ja Natalia Levenko. Eesti Panga Toimetised, No. 6/2020.
• Joint and individual savings within families: evidence from bank accounts, 2020, autorid Merike Kukk ja W. Fred van Raaij. Eesti Panga Toimetised, No. 1/2020.

• Debt repayment problems: short-term and long-term implications for spending, 2019, autor Merike Kukk. Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 17, No. 2, lk. 715-740.

• Macroeconomic imbalances and loan quality in panels of European countries, 2019, autorid Merike Kukk ja Natalia Levenko. Working Papers of Eesti Pank, No. 6/2019.

• Macroeconomic Factors in the Dynamics of Corporate and Household Saving. Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, 2017, autorid Merike Kukk ja Karsten Staehr. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Vol. 53, No.11, lk. 2585–2608.

• Identification of Households Prone to Income Underreporting: Employment Status or Reported Business Income?, 2017, autorid Merike Kukk ja Karsten Staehr. Public Finance Review, Vol.45, No. 5, lk. 599–627.

• How does household debt affect financial asset holdings? Evidence from euro area countries, 2017, autor Merike Kukk. Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 34, No. 2, lk. 194-212.

• How Did Household Indebtedness Hamper Consumption during the Recession? Evidence from Micro Data, 2016, autor Merike Kukk. Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 44, No. 3, lk. 764-786.
• Estimating Consumption Responses to Income Shocks of Different Persistence Using Self-Reported Income Measures, 2016, autorid Merike Kukk, Dmitry Kulikov and Karsten Staehr. Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 62, No. 2, lk. 311-333.
• Income Underreporting by Households with Business Income. Evidence from Estonia, 2014, autorid Merike Kukk ja Karsten Staehr. Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 26, No. 2, lk. 257-276.
• Housing Equity Withdrawal and Consumption Dynamics in Estonia 2002-2011, 2012, autorid Madis Aben, Merike Kukk ja Karsten Staehr. Research in Economics and Business: Central and Eastern Europe, Vol 4, No. 1, lk. 19-40.