Research

Publications

Epstein, Brendan, Rahul Mukherjee and Shanthi P. Ramnath (2016).  "Taxes and International Risk Sharing."  Journal of International Economics, Vol. 102, pp. 310-326.

Arseneau, David M. and Brendan Epstein (2017).  "Offshoring, Mismatch, and Labor Market Outcomes,"  in Bent Jesper Christensen and Carsten Kowalczyk (eds.), Globalization: Strategies and Effects.  Springer.

Epstein, Brendan and Alan Finkelstein Shapiro (2017).  "Employment and Firm Heterogeneity, Capital Allocation, and Countercyclical Labor Market Policies."  Journal of Development Economics, 127, pp. 25-41.

Epstein, Brendan, Alan Finkelstein Shapiro and Andres Gonzalez Gomez (2017).  "Financial Disruptions and the Cyclical Upgrading of Labor."  The Review of Economic Dynamics, 26, pp. 204-224.

Epstein, Brendan and Alan Finkelstein Shapiro (2019).  "Financial Development, Unemployment Volatility, and Sectoral Dynamics."  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 99, pp. 82-102.  

Epstein, Brendan, Alan Finkelstein Shapiro and Andres Gonzalez Gomez (2019).  "Global Financial Risk, Domestic Financial Access, and Unemployment Dynamics." Journal of International Economics, Vol 118, pp. 351-418.

Epstein, Brendan and Alan Finkelstein Shapiro (2021).  "Increasing Domestic Financial Participation: Implications for Business Cycles and Labor Markets."  The Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 39, pp. 128-145.

Epstein, Brendan, Alan Finkelstein Shapiro and Andres Gonzalez Gomez (2022).  "Firm Creation, Entry Costs, and House-Price Volatility."  Forthcoming in The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Epstein, Brendan, Ryan Nunn, Musa Orak, and Elena Patel.  Taxation, Social Welfare, and Labor Market Outcomes.  Forthcoming in the European Economic Review.

Currently Under Review

What Drives Trends in Employment and Hours Worked per Worker?  A Cross Country Analysis (with Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Rahul Mukherjee, and Shanthi Ramnath)

The Decline of Drudgery and the Paradox of Hard Work (with Miles S. Kimball), NBER Working Paper 29041

Other Active Working Papers

Efficient Mismatch (with David M. Arseneau)

The Changing Anatomy of Vacancy Propagation: Industry Responses and Compositional Shifts (with Musa Orak).

Cooling Without Cracking: The Unemployment Cost of Post-Pandemic Labor Market Cooling (with Musa Orak and Avani Pradhan).

Ambiguity, Global Financial Risk, and Emerging Market Business Cycles (with Rahul Mukherjee, Musa Orak, and Alessandro Peri).

Taxable Income on the Job Ladder: On-the-Job Search and the Welfare Cost of Labor Taxation (with Musa Orak and Elena Patel).

Work in Progress

TBD title: extension of "Ambiguity, Global Financial Risk, and Emerging Market Business Cycles" (with Rahul Mukherjee, Musa Orak and Alessandro Peri)

TBD title: extension of "Taxable Income on the Job Ladder: On-the-Job Search and the Welfare Cost of Labor Taxation" (with Musa Orak and Elena Patel)

Matching Architecture and the Efficiency of Occupational Mismatch (with David M. Arseneau)