Brian Higgins

Assistant Professor of Economics

Institute for International Economic Studies
Stockholm University

Macroeconomics Household Finance Real Estate

Research

Selected papers

Schematic overlapping housing-market segments

Racial Segmentation in the US Housing Market

Best Junior Scholar Paper, AREUEA 2023

Working paper2023

Schematic career pipeline with changes in retention at successive stages

The Leaky Pipeline: Retention, Performance, and Promotion Policies

with Kate Reinmuth

Working paper2026

Two light paths diverging after a persistent income shock

Savings and Consumption Responses to Persistent Income Shocks

with Terry O'Malley and Fang Yao

Working paper2024

Schematic threshold diagram representing mortgage borrowing limits

Differential Effects of LTV and LTI Limits on Mortgage Choices

Lamfalussy Fellowship, European Central Bank

Working paper2026

Moving earnings distributions through a boom, bust and rebound

Boom, Bust, Rebound: Two Decades of Earnings Inequality, Risk and Mobility in Ireland

with Tara McIndoe-Calder, Barra Roantree and Kun Wu

Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Macroeconomics, GRID Special Issue