Research Page of Damba Lkhagvasuren
My main research areas include:
multi-sector economy,
business cycles and stochastic models,
labor market dynamics,
applied econometrics and quantitative methods.
My RePEc entry and Google Scholar page.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1863-0321
Publication
Skewed Binomial Markov Chains, Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2023, Vol 150: 81-122.
Finite-State Markov Chains with Flexible Distributions, Computational Economics, 2023, Vol 61: 611-644, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-021-10222-6 (joint with E. Bataa)
Unemployment Insurance Take-up Rates in an Equilibrium Search Model, European Economic Review, 2019, Vol 112: 1-31 (joint with S. Auray and D. Fuller)
The Impact of Income and Taxation in a Price-Tiered Cigarette Market, Tоbacco Control, 2019, Vol 28: s37–s44 (joint with I. Huq, N. Nargis, A.K.M.G. Hussain and G. Fong)
The Common Patterns of the Wages of College Graduates in Mongolia and the U.S., Социологи, 2016, 1 (joint with Zagdbazar Manlaibaatar)
Worker Search Effort as an Amplification Mechanism, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2015, Vol 75: 106-122 (joint with P. Gomme)
Productivity Insurance: The Role of Unemployment Benefits in a Multi-Sector Model, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2014, Vol 47: 39-53 (joint with D. Fuller and M. Kudlyak)
This article was selected as part of the latest research advances in Dynamic General Equilibrium Theory: http://nepdge.wordpress.com.
A Moment-Matching Method for Approximating VAR Processes by Finite-State Markov Chains, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, Vol 29(5): 843–859 (joint with N. Gospodinov)
The codes are at https://sites.google.com/site/dlkhagva/var_mmm.
Education, Mobility and the College Wage Premium, European Economic Review, 2014, Vol 67: 159-173
Sectoral Mobility and Unemployment with Heterogeneous Moving Costs, Journal of Labor Research, 2013, Vol. 34(3): 339-358 (joint with R. Nitulescu, Concordia MA student)
Big Locational Unemployment Differences Despite High Labor Mobility, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2012, Vol 59(8): 798-814
This article was listed in "Findings: A Daily Roundup of Academic Studies," National Affairs, Nov 15, 2012.
Discretization of Highly Persistent Correlated AR(1) Shocks, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, Vol 34(7): 1260-1276 (joint with R. Galindev)
Book, Chapter, and Report
An Analysis of the Ins and Outs of Migration within Canada, CIRANO Project Reports 2019, RP-14, CIRANO (joint with P. Gomme, G. M. Jamil, and T. Koreshkova)
Ажил, 2016, Khaan Printing, Ulaanbaatar (in Mongolian language)
Calibration and Simulation of DSGE Models in N. Hashimzade and M. Thornton (eds.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Macroeconomics, 2013, pp. 575-592, Edward Elgar Publishing (joint with P. Gomme)
Revisions and Work in Progress
Systematic Job Search: New Evidence from Individual Job Application Data, revision requested by Journal of Labor Economics (joint with M. Kudlyak and R. Sysuyev)
The Role of a Persistent Match Shock in Sectoral Mobility, the Wage-Tenure Profile, and Lifetime Earnings, (joint with S. Auray, D. Fuller and A. Terracol)
Mobility and Wages of the Young and the Old (joint with J. Hansen)
IZA working paper version: IZA DP No. 9258
Local Labor Market Impact on Homelessness: Evidence from Canadian Administrative Data
The Moving Cost and Unemployment: A Theoretical Analysis
Labour Migration in China (joint with P. Gomme, T. Koreshkova and J. Zhang)
On the Speed of Local Labor Market Adjustment: Revisiting Blanchard and Katz (1992) (joint with G. M. Jamil)