Ökonomist, Dr.
E-post: Merike.Kukk [at] eestipank.ee

Uurimisvaldkonnad:

Majapidamiste tarbimine, säästmine ja laenamine
Seosed eraisiku käitumise ja reaalmajanduse vahel
Majapidamiste maksukäitumine

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, juhtivspetsialist (koormus 0,6)
2016- Tallinna Tehnikakülikool, majandusteaduskond, dotsent
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:

• Cheating in Europe: underreporting of self-employment income in comparative persp [1]ective, avaldamisel 2020. aastal, autorid Merike Kukk, Alari Paulus ja Karsten Staehr. International Tax and Public Finance.

• The Spanish housing market: is it fundamentally broken? [2], avaldamisel 2020. aastal, autorid Juan Carlos Cuestas Olivares ja Merike Kukk. Applied Economics Letters.

• Debt repayment problems: short-term and long-term implications for spending [3], 2019, autor Merike Kukk. Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 17, No. 2, lk. 715-740.

• What explains the gender gap in wealth? Evidence from administrative data [4], 2019, autorid Jaanika Meriküll, Merike Kukk ja Tairi Rõõm. Working Papers of Eesti Pank, No 4/2019.

• Macroeconomic imbalances and loan quality in panels of European countries [5], 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 [6]. 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? [7], 2017, autorid Merike Kukk ja Karsten Staehr. Public Finance Review, Vol.45, No.5, pp. 599–627.

• How does household debt affect financial asset holdings? Evidence from euro area countries [8], 2017, autor Merike Kukk. Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 34, No.2, pp. 194-212.

• Asymmetries in the interaction between housing prices and housing credit in Estonia [9], 2017, autorid Juan Carlos Cuestas ja Merike Kukk. Working Papers of Eesti Pank, No 2/2017.
• How Did Household Indebtedness Hamper Consumption during the Recession? Evidence from Micro Data [10], 2016, autor Merike Kukk. Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 44, No.3, pp. 764-786.
• Estimating Consumption Responses to Income Shocks of Different Persistence Using Self-Reported Income Measures [11], 2016, autorid Merike Kukk, Dmitry Kulikov and Karsten Staehr. Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 62, No.2, pp. 311-333.
• Enhanced Fiscal Governance in the European Union: The Fiscal Compact [12], 2015, autorid Merike Kukk ja Karsten Staehr. Baltic Journal of European Studies, Vol. 5, No.1, pp. 73-92.
• Income Underreporting by Households with Business Income. Evidence from Estonia [13], 2014, autorid Merike Kukk ja Karsten Staehr. Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 26, No.2, pp. 257-276.
• Housing Equity Withdrawal and Consumption Dynamics in Estonia 2002-2011 [14], 2012, autorid Madis Aben, Merike Kukk ja Karsten Staehr. Research in Economics and Business: Central and Eastern Europe, Vol 4, No. 1, pp. 19-40.