Research
My research focuses upon the macroeconomics of labour markets and housing markets.
Working Papers:
"The Welfare Effects of Trade with Labour Market Risk" with Omid Mousavi
"Investment Housing Tax Concessions and Welfare: Evidence from Australia" with Yunho Cho and Shuyun Li, accepted at International Economic Review
"Stamping Out Stamp Duty: Property or Consumption Taxes", with Yunho Cho and Shuyun Li, accepted at Quantitative Economics
Selected Published Papers:
"The Redistributive Role of Unemployment Benefits", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 90, pp. 236-258, (2018)
An early working paper version available at SSRN entitled Equilibrium Unemployment with Incomplete Markets
"Worker Heterogeneity, the Job Finding Rate, and Technological Change", with Suren Basov and Ian King, European Economic Review, Vol. 70, pp. 159-177, (2014).
An early working paper version of this paper is available entitled: "The Employed, the Unemployed, and the Unemployable: Directed Search with Worker Heterogeneity", with Suren Basov and Ian King.
"Economic Policy and the Great Depression in a Small Open Economy", with Jonathan Payne, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol. 46, Iss. 2-3, pp. 347-370, (2014).
Online Appendix for "Economic Policy and the Great Depression in a Small Open Economy", with Jonathan Payne.
"Skill Requirements, Search Frictions and Wage Inequality", with Gabor Virag, International Economic Review, Vol. 52, Iss. 2, pp. 379-406, (2011).
"Inequality, Volatility and Labour Market Efficiency", Topics in Macroeconomics, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, Article 17, (2008).
“Entrepreneurship and Labour Market Fluctuations”, Economics Bulletin, 10(13):1–11, (2007).
"The Allocation of Labor and Endogenous Search Decisions", Topics in Macroeconomics. Vol. 6, Iss. 1, Article 13, (2006).
Works in Progress:
"Contract Duration and Union Bargaining" with Faisal Sohail and Gabor Virag