Publications

• Wage-Setting Protocols and Labor Market Conditions: Theory and Evidence (with Brenda Samaniego de la Parra and Ronald Wolthoff). Labour Economics (2025).

• Wealth, Search and Human Capital over the Business Cycle (with Ben Griffy), Macroeconomic Dynamics (2025).

• Do Unemployment Benefit Extensions Explain the  Emergence of Jobless Recoveries? (with Kurt Mitman), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2024).

• Co-Essentiality of Money and Credit: a Mechanism Design View (with Hugo van Buggenum), Journal of Economic Theory (2023).

• Worker Selectivity and Fiscal Externalities from Unemployment Insurance (with Ben Griffy), European Economic Review (2023).

• Misallocation Inefficiency in Partially  Directed Search (with Ronald Wolthoff), Journal of Economic Theory (2022).

• Nonlinear Unemployment Effects of the Inflation Tax (with Mohammed Ait Lahcen, Garth Baughman and Hugo van Buggenum), European Economic Review (2022). 

• Whether, When and How to Extend Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Application to COVID-19 (with Kurt Mitman), Journal of Public Economics (2021). 

• Capacity Choice, Monetary Trade and the Cost of Inflation (with Garth Baughman), European Economic Review (2021). 

• Self-Confirming Price Dispersion in Monetary Economies (with Garth Baughman), Journal of Economic Theory (2019). 

• Dynamic Inefficiency in Decentralized Capital Markets (with Andre Kurmann), Journal of Economic Theory (2018). 

• Revisiting Multiplicity of Bubble Equilibria in a Search Model with Posted Prices, BE Journal of Theoretical Economics (2017). 

• Optimal Auctions with Endogenous Budgets (with Brian Baisa), Economics Letters (2016).  

• Optimal Unemployment Insurance in an Equilibrium Business Cycle Model (with Kurt Mitman), Journal of Monetary Economics (2015).

• On the Multiplicity of Monetary Equilibria: Green-Zhou Meets Lagos-Wright (with Kasie Jean and Randall Wright), Journal of Economic Theory (2010). 

Working papers 

• Asset Safety and Liquidity over the Business Cycle (with Mohammed Ait Lahcen, Pedro Gomis-Porqueras and Hugo van Buggenum)

• Product Market Power as a Labor Distortion: the Case of Home Production Substitutes (with William Jungerman and Bailey Sanders)

Work in progress 

• Part-Time and Full-Time Employment: Cyclical Behavior and Policy Tradeoffs (with Pedro Gomis-Porqueras and Ben Griffy)

• Informality, Dollarization, and Optimal Policy (with Mohammed Ait Lahcen and Tsuyoshi Nakano)

• Optimal Monetary Policy under Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity (with Mohammed Ait Lahcen and Lukas Altermatt)