Jan Eeckhout

Jan Eeckhout MAE
Born	Belgium
Known for	Research on market power Matching theory and sorting Urban economics (Gibrat’s law)

Academic background
Alma mater	KU Leuven (BEng, 1992) University of Manchester (MA, 1993) London School of Economics (PhD, 1998)
Academic work
Institutions	Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona School of Economics


Awards	Fellow of the Econometric Society Member of the Academia Europaea King Jaume I Award

Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Jan Eeckhout MAE is a Belgian economist. He is an ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and at the Barcelona School of Economics. Eeckhout is known for his research on the macroeconomic implications of market power, as well as his contributions to the economics of labor markets. He served as President of the European Economic Association in 2024 and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Member of the Academia Europaea.