Svend E. Hougaard Jensen er professor ved Økonomisk Institut på Copenhagen Business School, medlem af Danmarks Forskningspolitiske Råd samt Research Fellow ved Netspar (Network for Studies in Pensions, Aging and Retirement) i Holland. Uddannet cand.oecon. fra Aarhus Universitet, MA(Econ) fra University of Manchester og PhD (Econ) fra London Business School. Tidligere lektor på CBS og Københavns Universitet, kontorchef i Økonomi- og Erhvervsministeriet, professor på Syddansk Universitet samt i perioden 1999-2009 forskningschef/direktør for Centre for Economic and Business Research. En række publikationer i form af bøger på danske og internationale forlag, artikler i danske og internationale tidsskrifter/bøger samt formidlende artikler. Også (med)forfatter til rapporter om forskningspolitik. Forsker i langsigtede aspekter af finanspolitik; samspillet mellem makroøkonomisk politik og strukturreformer i ØMUen samt betydningen af uddannelse, forskning og innovation for økonomisk vækst og produktivitet. Modtager af Grundfosprisen, Lundbeckprisen og Jørgen Pedersen Prisen.

Bøger:

Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability in the European Union, to appear 2008, Cambridge University Press (edited with Juha Alho and Jukka Lassila).  

Using Dynamic General Equilibrium Models for Policy Analysis, 2000, Contributions to Economic Analysis, 248, North-Holland (edited with Glenn W. Harrison, Lars Haagen Pedersen and Thomas F. Rutherford).

Fiscal Aspects of European Monetary Integration, 1999, Cambridge University Press (edited with Andrew Hughes Hallett and Michael M. Hutchison).

Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Danish Economy, 1999, Macmillan Press (edited with Torben M. Andersen and Ole Risager).

Artikler:

“The Welfare State and Strategies towards Fiscal Sustainability in Denmark”, to appear in Neck, R. and J.-E. Sturm (Eds.), Sustainability of Public Debt, MIT Press, 2008 (with Torben M. Andersen and Lars Haagen Pedersen).

“Uncertain Demographics, Longevity Adjustment of the Retirement Age, and Intergenerational Risk-Sharing”, to appear in Alho, J., S. H. Jensen and J. Lassila (Eds.), Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability in the European Union, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (with Ole Hagen Jørgensen)

“Efficiency and Equity Effects of Alternative Social Security Rules”, FinanzArchiv, vol. 60 (3), 2004, pp. 325-358 (with Morten I. Lau and Panu Poutvaara).

“On the Measurement of Relative Demand Shifts for Educated Labour”, Economics Letters, vol. 83 (2), 2004, pp. 245-249 (with Anders Sørensen).

“On the Role of Labour Market Reform for the Enlargement of a Monetary Union”, CESifo Economic Studies, vol. 49 (3), pp. 355-379 (with Andrew Hughes Hallett).

“Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 104 (3), 2002, pp. 471-493 (with Thomas F. Rutherford).

”Measuring Educational Heterogeneity and Labour Quality: A Note”, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 48, 2002, pp. 261-269 (with Mogens Fosgerau and Anders Sørensen).

“Generational and Gender-Specific Aspects of the Tax and Transfer System in Denmark”, Empirical Economics, vol. 22, 1997, pp. 615-635 (with Bernd Raffelhü­schen).

“Wage Rigidity, Monetary Integration and Fiscal Stabi­lisation in Europe”, Review of Inter­national Economics, vol. 5, 1997, pp. 36-54.

“Debt, Deficits and Transition to EMU: A Small Country Analysis”, European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 11, 1995, pp. 3-25 (with Lars Grue Jensen).