Work in Progress
Please see my CV for a list of current projects.
Publications
Macroeconomics
1. "Contracts and Firms' Inflation Expectations", joint with Saten Kumar. The Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
2. "Did the FED React to Asset Price Bubbles?", joint with Marc Luik. The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 21(2): 745-772, 2021.
3. "How Large are Firing Costs? A Cross-Country Study". Applied Economics Quarterly, forthcoming.
4. "Price Bargaining and the Business Cycle". Applied Economics Quarterly, 66(1): 1-27, 2020.
5. "Credit Policy and Asset Price Bubbles", joint with Petre Caraiani and Marc Luik. Journal of Macroeconomics, 65: 103229, 2020.
6. "Jobless Recoveries: Interaction between Financial and Search Frictions". Journal of Macroeconomics, 61, 2019.
7. "Procyclical Debt as Automatic Stabilizer". Journal of Quantitative Economics, 18(1): 81-102, 2019.
8. "Expectation Shocks and Fiscal Rules", International Economics and Economic Policy, 16(2): 357-377, 2019.
9. "Time-Varying Volatility in the U.S. Labor Market", Journal of Applied Economics, 21(1): 197-213, 2018.
10. "Correlated Shocks in Estimated DSGE Models", joint with Alexander Falter. Economics Bulletin, 38(4): 2026-2036, 2018.
11. "Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model with Endogenous Productivity", Annals of Economics and Finance, 19(1): 103-135, 2018.
12. "The Effects of Unions on Job Flows", International Journal of Manpower, 39(1): 25-36, 2018.
13. "The Intensive Margin Puzzle and Labor Market Adjustment Costs", Macroeconomic Dynamics, 20(6): 1458-1476, 2016.
14. "Sectoral Labor Market Effects of Fiscal Spending", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 34: 19-35, 2015.
15. "What drives Endogenous Growth in the United States?", The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), 15(1): 183-221, 2015.
16. "Firing Costs in a Business Cycle Model with Endogenous Separations", Journal of Economic Studies, 42(3): 499-518, 2015.
17. "Bubbles over the U.S. Business Cycle: A Macroeconometric Approach", joint with Marc Luik. Journal of Macroeconomics, 40: 27-41, 2014.
18. "Evaluating Labor Market Reforms: A Normative Analysis", joint with Céline Poilly. Journal of Macroeconomics, 39: 156-170, 2014.
19. "On Time-dependent Business Cycle Distributions of Labor Market Variables", European Economics Letters, 3(1): 57-61, 2014.
20. "Staggered Wages, Sticky Prices, and Labor Market Dynamics in Matching Models", joint with Janett Neugebauer. Applied Economics Quarterly, 60(3): 159-177, 2014.
21. "Labour Market Dynamics in Australia", The Australian Economic Review, 47(2): 1-16, 2014.
22. "Firing Tax vs. Severance Payment - An Unequal Comparison", Journal of Economic Studies, 41(5): 721-736, 2014.
23. "Reciprocity and Matching Frictions", International Review of Economics, 60(3): 247-268, 2013.
24. "Gender-specific Differences in Labor Market Adjustment Patterns: Evidence from the United States", The Social Science Journal, 50(3): 381-385, 2013.
25. "Sector-Specific Productivity Shocks in a Matching Model", Economic Modelling, 28(6): 2674-2682, 2011.
26. "Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States: Any Differences?", joint with Christian Merkl. Applied Economics Letters, 18: 805-808, 2011.
27. "Evaluating the Federal Reserves Policy", Kiel Policy Brief, No. 23, 2011.
28. "Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Stimulus Packages", joint with Björn van Roye. In Klodt, H. and Lehment, H. (eds.) The Crisis and Beyond, The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2009.
29. "Wie wirksam ist die Finanzpolitik in der Rezession?", joint with Björn van Roye (in German). IfW Highlights, The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2009.
Climate, Environment, and Society
30. "Food Insecurity and International Migration Flows", joint with Michael D. Smith. International Migration Review, forthcoming.
31. "Do you Feel the Heat Around the Corner? The Effect of Weather on Crime.", joint with Nadezhda Baryshnikova and Shannon Davidson. Empirical Economics, forthcoming.
32. "Climate Change and International Migration: The Role of Foreign Aid", joint with Michael D. Smith and Shannon Minehan. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 2021.
33. "Does Temperature affect Income?", Economics Bulletin, 41(1): 18-27, 2021.
34. "Revisiting the Climate Driver and Inhibitor Mechanisms of International Migration". Climate and Development, 13(1): 10-20, 2021.
35. "On Thresholds in the Climate-Migration Relationship", joint with Dorian Owen. International Review of Applied Economics, 34(3): 400-412, 2020.
36. "Gone with the Wind: International Migration", joint with Amelia Aburn. Global and Planetary Change, 178: 96-109, 2019.
37. "The Influence of Climate on Migration". The Australian Economic Review, 52(3): 363-372, 2019.
Development
38. "COVID-19, Food Insecurity, and Migration", joint with Michael D. Smith. Journal of Nutrition, 150(11): 2855-2858, 2020.
39. "The Role of Subjective Wellbeing in Cross-Border Migration", joint with Arthur Grimes. In Kourtit, K., Newbold, B., Nijkamp, P., and Partridge, M. (eds.) Handbook on the Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration, forthcoming.
40. "The Impact of Immigration on Foreign Market Access: A Panel Analysis", joint with Murat Genc. In Kourtit, K., Newbold, B., Nijkamp, P., and Partridge, M. (eds.) Handbook on the Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration, forthcoming.
41. "Visual Imagination and Performance in Undergraduate Students", joint with David Fielding and Viktoria Kahui. New Zealand Economic Papers, 54(2): 127-137, 2020.
42. "Moving Towards Happiness?", joint with Arthur Grimes. International Migration, 57(3): 20-40, 2019.
43. "Happiness over the Financial Crisis". Oxford Development Studies, 47(1): 113-133, 2019.
44. "Socioeconomic Driving Forces of International Migration". Journal of Globalization and Development, 8(2): 1-17, 2017.
45. "Kernfusion - Die vernachlässigte Alternative" (in German), Kiel Policy Brief, No. 30 and ITER Newsline, No. 186, 2011.
Finance
46. "Child Health, Human Capital, and Adult Financial Behavior", joint with Marc Luik and Amelia Guha Thakurta. Health Economics, forthcoming.
47. "The Value of Pole Position in Formula 1 History", joint with Dorian Owen. Australian Economic Review, 54(1): 164-173, 2021.
48. "Did Brexit change Asset Co-Movements?", joint with Shrabani Saha, Anindya Sen, and Christine Smith-Han. Journal of Financial Economic Policy, forthcoming.
49. "Catastrophe Theory and the Financial Crisis", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 64(4): 376-391, 2017.
Books
"New Zealand's Foreign Policy under the Jacinda Ardern Administration", joint with Peter Grace, Balazs Kiglics, and Robert Patman. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, forthcoming.