Merike Kukk Curriculum Vitae

Senior Economist, Ph.D.
E-post: [email protected]

Research topics:

Household consumption, saving and borrowing
Household tax behaviour
Housing market, determinants of house prices
Non-performing loans of the banking sector

Education:

2016 — Ph.D. in Economics, Tallinn University of Technology
2004 — MA in Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology
1999 — BA in Economics, University of Tartu

Work experience:

2016 – Bank of Estonia, Economics and Research Department, Senior economist (0.6)
2016 – Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Finance and Economics, Senior researcher (part-time)
2013, 2015 Bank of Estonia, Economics and Research Department, Visiting Researcher (part-time)
2012-2016 Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Finance and Economics, Researcher
2005-2008 SEB, Marketing and PR division, Deputy Head
2000-2004 SEB, Marketing and PR division, Project Manager

Publications: 

Articles in international peer-reviewed academic journals

• Juan Carlos Cuestas Olivares, Merike Kukk, Natalia Levenko (2022). ”Misalignments in house prices and economic growth in Europe.” Applied Economics, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2022.2110212
• Merike Kukk, Jaanika Meriküll, Tairi Rõõm (2022). “The gender wealth gap in Europe: Application of Machine Learning to Predict Individual Level Wealth”, Review of Income and Wealth.
• Merike Kukk, Fred W van Raaij (2022). ”Joint and Individual Savings within Families: Evidence from Bank Accounts”, Journal of Family and Economic Issues.
• Merike Kukk (2022). “What are the triggers for arrears on debt over a business cycle? Evidence from panel data”, International Journal of Finance & Economics.
• Jaanika Meriküll, Merike Kukk, Tairi Rõõm. (2021). “What explains the gender gap in wealth? Evidence from administrative data”, Review of Economics of the Household, Vol 19, pp 501–547.
• Juan Carlos Cuestas Olivares, Merike Kukk (2020): “The interaction between housing prices and housing credit: evidence from a country with rapid credit accumulation”, Journal of Economic Studies, Vol 48, No 1, pp 191−209.
• Merike Kukk, Alari Paulus, Karsten Staehr (2020): “Cheating in Europe: underreporting of self-employment income in comparative perspective”, International Tax and Public Finance, Vol 27, No 2, pp 363-390.
• Juan Carlos Cuestas Olivares, Merike Kukk (2020): “The Spanish housing market: is it fundamentally broken?”, Applied Economics Letters, Vol 27, No 15, pp 1295-1299.
• Merike Kukk (2019): “Debt repayment problems: short-term and long-term implications for spending”, Review of Economics of the Household, Vol 17, No 2, pp 715-740.
• Merike Kukk, Karsten Staehr (2017): “Macroeconomic Factors in Corporate and Household Saving. Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe”, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Vol 53, No 11, pp 2585–2608.
• Merike Kukk, Karsten Staehr (2017): “Identification of Households Prone to Income Underreporting: Employment Status or Reported Business Income?”, Public Finance Review, Vol 45, No 5, pp 599–627.
• Merike Kukk (2017): “ How does household debt affect financial asset holdings? Evidence from euro area countries”, Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol 34, No 2, pp 194-221.
• Merike Kukk (2016): “How Did Household Indebtedness Hamper Consumption during the Recession? Evidence from Micro Data”, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol 44, No 3, pp 764-786.
• Merike Kukk, Dmitry Kulikov, Karsten Staehr (2016): “Estimating Consumption Responses to Income Shocks of Different Persistence Using Self-Reported Income Measures”, Review of Income and Wealth, Vol 62, No 2, pp 311-333.
• Merike Kukk, Karsten Staehr (2014): “Income Underreporting by Households with Business Income. Evidence from Estonia”, Post-Communist Economies, Vol 26, No 2, pp 257-276.
• Madis Aben, Merike Kukk, Karsten Staehr (2012): “Housing Equity Withdrawal and Consumption Dynamics in Estonia 2002-2011”, Research in Economics and Business: Central and Eastern Europe, Vol 4, No 1, pp 19-40.

Working Papers (selected):

• Merike Kukk, Natalia Levenko (2022). Interest rate spreads in Estonia: Different stories for different types of loan. Working Paper series of Eesti Pank, No 7/2022.
• Merike Kukk, Alari Paulus, Nicolas Reigl (2022). ”Credit market concentration and systemic risk in Europe”. Working Paper series of Eesti Pank, No. 4/2022.

• Juan Carlos Cuestas Olivares, Merike Kukk, Natalia Levenko. House price misalignments and economic growth in Europe. Working Paper series of Eesti Pank, No 1/2021.
  Juan Carlos Cuestas Olivares, Merike Kukk and Natalia Levenko (2022). ”House price misalignments and economic growth in Europe.” Applied Economics.

• Merike Kukk, Natalia Levenko (2020). „Alternative financing and the non-performing loans of the corporate sector in Estonia“, Working Paper series of Eesti Pank, No. 6/2020.
• Merike Kukk, Fred W van Raaij (2020). Joint and individual savings within families: evidence from bank accounts. Working Paper series of Eesti Pank, No 1/2020.
  Merike Kukk, Fred W van Raaij (2022). ”Joint and Individual Savings within Families: Evidence from Bank Accounts”, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Vol 43, pp 511−533.
• Merike Kukk, Natalia Levenko (2019). Macroeconomic imbalances and loan quality in panels of European countries, Working Paper Series of Eesti Pank, No 6/2019.

Academic networks

E-1202-2017 (Researcher ID). 0000-0001-9804-8472 (ORCID), ETIS, Google Schola