Research

Publications

1. Health, Health Insurance and Inequality, online appendix, with Jiaying Gu, Chaoran Chen. accepted, International Economic Review.

2. Macroeconomic Consequences of Alternative Reforms to the Health Insurance System in the U.S., International Studies of Economics, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 6-34.

3. Funding employer-based Insurance: Regressive Taxation and Premium Exclusions, with Anne Villamil. Economic Theory, Volume 73, April 2022, Page 509-540.

4. Employer-based Health Insurance and Aggregate Labor Supply, with Kai Zhao. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 154, Oct 2018, Page 156-174.

5. Employment-based Health Insurance and Misallocation: Implications for the Macroeconomy, with David Chivers, Anne Villamil. Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2017), Page 125-149.

6. Indeterminacy in Stochastic Overlapping Generations Models: Real Effects in the Long Run, with Matthew Hoelle. Economic Theory, Volume 63, Issue 2 (2017), Page 559-585.

7. An Evaluation of Constitutional Constraints on Capital Taxation, with Begona Dominguez, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Volume 21, Issue 7 (2017), Pages 1519-1544.

8. The Time-Inconsistency Problem of Labor Taxes and Constitutional Constraints, with Begona Dominguez, Dynamic Games and Applications, Volume 6, Issue 2 (2016), Page 225-242.

9. Time Consistent Optimal Fiscal Policy over the Business Cycle, Quantitative Economics, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2015), Page 189-221.

10. Numerical Simulation of Non-optimal Dynamic Equilibrium Models, with Jianjun Miao, Adrian Peralta-Alva, Manuel Santos, International Economic Review, Volume 55, Issue 1 (2014), Page 83-110.

11. Tackling Indeterminacy in the Overlapping Generations Model, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Volume 77, Issue 3 (2013), Page 445-457.

12. Macroeconomic Analysis of Universal Coverage in the U.S., in S. K. Chai, J. J. Salemo, & P. L. Mabry, Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction 2010 (pp. 87-96). New York: Springer.

Working Papers

1. Markov Perfect Equilibrium in Economies with Sovereign Default and Distortionary Taxation, with Manuel Santos.

2. Long-Term and Cyclical Properties of Time-Consistent Fiscal Policies, with Manuel Santos, under review.

3. Sovereign Default and Optimal Fiscal Policies over the Business Cycle, with Manuel Santos.

4. Optimal Taxation with Incomplete Markets –an Exploration via Reinforcement Learning, with Jiequn Han and Shenghao Zhu, under review.

5. Imperfect Tradable Health, and Provision of Employment-based Health Insurance, with Dan Bernhardt, preliminary & incomplete version.

6. Optimal Taxation for Economy with Idiosyncratic Shocks and Aggregate Uncertainty, with Jiequn Han and Shenghao Zhu.

Working in Progress

1. Monetary Policy with Heterogenous Firms, an Exploration of Machine Learning, with Qingyuan Du, slides

2. Necessity Entrepreneurs, with David Chivers, Elisa Keller and Bo Li

3. Government Debt and Intergenerational Risk Sharing, with Eungsik Kim and Kevin Mott