Biography

Julian Winkler is a DPhil student in Economics at the University of Oxford, supervised by Doyne Farmer, Rick Van der Ploeg and Steve Bond, and is part of the Complexity Economics group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Julian was previously a Research Assistant for the Programme on Technological and Economic Change at the Oxford Martin School. His research focused on heavy-tailed phenomena in economic data, investigating their origins, and their implications for policy. He received his MSc in Economics at the University of Warwick in January 2017 and joined Oxford Martin School in September 2017.

His main areas of research are applied econometrics, macroeconomic modelling, and economics of technology.

Recent Publications

Nov 2024
Paper
Changing preferences as a source of stock return variation
Julian Winkler
Jun 2024
Journal
Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution
in Industrial and Corporate Change
Jangho Yang ,  Torsten Heinrich ,  Julian Winkler ,  François Lafond ,  Pantelis Koutroumpis ,  J. Doyne Farmer
Mar 2024
Journal
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?
in Journal of Economic Literature
Ian Goldin ,  Pantelis Koutroumpis ,  François Lafond ,  Julian Winkler
Aug 2023
Paper
Social contagion and asset prices: Reddit's self-organised bull runs
Valentina Semenova ,  Julian Winkler
May 2022
INET Working Paper
No. 2022-08 - Why is productivity slowing down?
Ian Goldin ,  Pantelis Koutroumpis ,  François Lafond ,  Julian Winkler
May 2022
Paper
Accounting for variety
Julian Winkler
Apr 2022
INET Working Paper
No. 2019-14 - Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution
Jangho Yang ,  Torsten Heinrich ,  Julian Winkler ,  François Lafond ,  Pantelis Koutroumpis ,  J. Doyne Farmer
May 2021
Blog
Reddit’s self-organised bull runs
Valentina Semenova ,  Julian Winkler
May 2021
INET Working Paper
No. 2021-12 - Why is productivity slowing down?
Ian Goldin ,  Pantelis Koutroumpis ,  François Lafond ,  Julian Winkler
May 2021
INET Working Paper
No. 2021-04 - Reddit’s self-organised bull runs: Social contagion and asset prices
Valentina Semenova ,  Julian Winkler

Research Areas

Financial stability
Macroeconomics

Programme Teams

Complexity Economics

Related Projects

Opinion dynamics

Recent advances in the availability of cheap computational power and real-world data present researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to construct and test mathematical models of human behaviour.
Understanding the economy from the bottom-up

Our models are based on fine-grained data sets at the level of firms, products and industries, with the goal of providing a detailed understanding of the rich and heterogeneous behaviour underlying business cycles, inflation and interest rates, innovation, and long-run growth.