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, Musa Orak, Ryan Nunn 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)

Taxation, Match Quality, and Social Welfare (with Ryan Nunn)

Work in Progress

Random Search, Directed Search and Cyclical Financial Dynamics

Taxation, Social Welfare, and On-The-Job Search (with Musa Orak and Elena Patel)

TBD title: Ambiguity project (with Rahul Mukherjee, Musa Orak, Alessandro Peri, and Yangwei Song)

Vacancies, Propagation and Welfare (with Alan Finkelstein Shapiro)

Global Financial Risk and Work Hours (with Musa Orak)