Research
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Public Finance, International Finance, Macro Labor
“The Impact of Sovereign Defaults on Lending Countries”, with Si Guo. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 60, 345-374, January 2023.
“Timing and Time Inconsistency in Search Models”, with Zoe Xie. Economics Letters, 220, 110846, November 2022.
“A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt Accumulation”, with Si Guo and Zoe Xie. Journal of Public Economics, 212, 104692, August 2022.
“Endogenous Immigration, Human and Physical Capital Formation, and the Immigration Surplus”, with Isaac Ehrlich. Journal of Human Capital, 15 (1), 34-85, Spring 2021.
“A Quantitative Theory of Time-Consistent Unemployment Insurance”, with Zoe Xie. Journal of Monetary Economics, 117, 848-870, January 2021.
“Human Capital as Engine of Growth: The Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries”, with Isaac Ehrlich. Asian Development Review, 37 (2), 225-263, September 2020.
“Optimal Sovereign Defaults in the Presence of Financial Frictions”. Revise and Resubmit, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics.
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“Government Commitment and Unemployment Insurance over Business Cycle”, with Zoe Xie.
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