Ludo Visschers -- Research
Note: Now *fixed*(19/9/20) that Google links stopped functioning after the transition to the new google sites; other access to papers: my IDEAS/RePEc site
Professor, University of Edinburgh
Investigador Asociado, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ⬦ IZA ⬦ CESifo
ludo∘visschers(at)ed∘ac∘uk
CV (pdf) Short abstracts of publications
Working Papers
⬦ Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle ⚬ with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela ⚬ revised and resubmitted, Econometrica ⚬ New Version, April 2020
⚬ full version (193 pages, with all appendices and links internal to document) ⚬ lean version (45 pages) ⚬ Appendices A-C ⚬ Supplementary Appendix ⚬
⬦ Temping Fates in Spain: Hours and Employment during the ‘Great Recession’ and Covid-19 ⚬ with Cristina Lafuente and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis ⚬ revision requested, SERIEs (SE: Juanjo Dolado) ⚬ Feb 2021
Works in Progress
⬦ "Cyclical Earnings and Employment Transitions" ⚬ with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and David Wiczer
⬦ Workers’ Task and Employer Mobility over the Business Cycle ⚬ with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Fraser Summerfield
⬦ Statistical Gender Discrimination in an equilibrium search model ⚬ with David Cuberes, Marc Teignier, Sevi Rodriguez-Mora
⬦ Basic Income and Heterogeneity in Macro (project) ⚬ with Rafael Lopes de Melo, Enric Martorell and Sevi Rodriguez-Mora
⬦ Self-employment, Paid employment and Unemployment over the business cycle ⚬ with Matthias Kredler and Ana Millan Tapia ⚬ (this is an older, preliminary, version from the SED) ⚬ slides (2017)
⬦ Untitled Project ⚬ with Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
Older projects
◇ "Employment Uncertainty and Wage Contracts in Frictional Markets" ⚬ 2009
◇ "Market Signaling with Frictions" ◇ "Positive Assortative Matching in Wealth with frictions: A Note " ⚬ old incomplete version ◇ "Interest Rates and Inventories in a Monetary Search Business Cycle Model" ⚬ with Irina Telyukova ⚬ older version 2009 under a different title.
Some Workshops Co-Organized
◇ Barcelona Summer Forum - Economic Growth and Fluctuations Session 2019, 2018, and 2017 (funding acknowledged by Barcelona GSE, MOVE, MacCaLM, Excelencia Severo Ochoa, Fundacion Ramon Araces, Ministerio Economia y Competitividad Spain)
◇ MacCaLM Workshop 2017, 2018 and 2019
◇ UC3M-CEMFI Macroeconomics Workshop 2016
◇ Search and Matching Annual Conference 2014
Research Groups/Networks
http://www.institutoeconomia.uc3m.es ⚬ UC3M Institute of Economics (IE)
http://sam.univ-lemans.fr/ ⚬ Search and Matching Europe Research Group
www.iza.org ⚬ IZA Institute of Labour
www.cesifo.org ⚬ CESifo research network
www.maccalm.org ⚬ Credit and Labour Market Foundations of the Macroeconomy (Research Project)
Other Links
www.madrideconomics.org ⚬ Seminar schedule for UC3M, CEMFI, Bank of Spain and FEDEA in one place
Publications
⬦ Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment ⚬ with Paolo Martellini & Guido Menzio ⚬ forthcoming ⚬ Economic Journal ⚬
⬦ "Competing with Asking Prices" ⚬ with Ben Lester and Ronald Wolthoff ⚬ May 2017 ⚬ Theoretical Economics (open access) ⚬
⬦ "The Extent and Cyclicality of Career Changes: Evidence for the UK" ⚬ with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Bart Hobijn and Powen She ⚬ May 2016, vol. 84, pp 18-41 ⚬ European Economic Review ⚬ open access provided by the ESRC ⚬ working paper version
⬦ "Directed Search over the Life Cycle" ⚬ with Guido Menzio and Irina Telyukova ⚬ Janurary 2016, vol. 19, pp 38-62 ⚬ Review of Economic Dynamics ⚬ link to open version February 2015 (alt. link)
⬦ "Unemployment Risk and Wage Differentials" ⚬ with Roberto Pinheiro ⚬ May 2015, vo. 157, pp397-424 ⚬ Journal of Economic Theory ⚬ link to earlier version Sept. 2014
⬦ "Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets" ⚬ with Ben Lester and Ronald Wolthoff ⚬ January 2016, vol. 155, pp 1-15 ⚬ Journal of Economic Theory ⚬ link to ungated version
⬦ "Precautionary Demand for Money in a Business Cycle Model" ⚬ with Irina Telyukova ⚬ Nov 2013, 60(8) ⚬ Journal of Monetary Economics ⚬ link to earlier version
⬦ "Information Acquisition and the Exclusion of Evidence in Trials" ⚬ with Ben Lester and Nicola Persico ⚬ 2012, 28(1) ⚬ Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
⬦ "Labor Market Fluctuations in the Small and in the Large" ⚬ with Richard Rogerson and Randall Wright ⚬ 2009, 5(1) ⚬ International Journal of Economic Theory ⚬ link to NBER WP Version
Non-refereed Publications
⬦ "Career Changes Decline During Recessions" ⚬ with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Bart Hobijn ⚬ 2014-09, ⚬ FRBSF Economic Letter ⬦
⬦ "Majority of Hires Never Report Looking For a Job" ⚬ with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Bart Hobijn and Patryk Perkowski ⚬ 2015-10, ⚬ FRBSF Economic Letter ⬦
Grants Acknowledged
ESRC Covid-19 Grant (EP/V043579/1), 2020-2022
"La eficacia de las políticas públicas sociales anticrisis COVID-19", Fundacion BBVA, 2020-2022
College of AHSS CRO COVID-19 Grant, Univ. of Edinburgh, 2020
CAHSS Challenge Investment Fund 2019, Univ of Edinburgh
María de Maeztu grant (reference: MDM 2014-0431) 2015-2019, through the Institute of Economics, U. Carlos III de Madrid, Spanish Government
ESRC Large Grant “Credit and Labour Market Foundations ofthe Macroeconomy” -- MacCaLM (co-I, 2015-2019)
ESRC Research Grant “Transparency in Procurement, the Design and Use of Information in Trading” (co-I, 2016-2019)
MadEco-CM grant (reference: S2015/HUM-3444) 2016-2019, through the Institute of Economics, U. Carlos III de Madrid
Chancellor's Fellowship, The University of Edinburgh (2013-2019)
Juan de la Cierva Fellowship, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain (PI, 2011-2013)
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Grant “Market Frictions, Household Saving and Labor Supply Decisions and Public Policy'' (co-I, 2011-2013)
Banco de España, Programa de Excelencia (co-I, 2011-2014)
President’s Research Grant, Simon Fraser University (2007)
Contact Info
Email: ludovisschers...at... gmail...com, ludo-dot-visschers...at...ed...ac...uk
Snail Mail address: School of Economics The University of Edinburgh
30 Buccleuch Place, EH8 9JT, Edinburgh United Kingdom
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