Research

What's new

On Household labour supply in sticky-wage HANK models

With Rafael Gerke, Sebastian Giesen, and Joost Röttger (Discussion Paper No 01/2024, Deutsche Bundesbank).

Working Papers

Who gets jobs matters: monetary policy and the labour market in HANK and SAM

With Uroš Herman (ECB WP No. 2850). An updated and improved version is available as the Central Bank of Ireland Research Technical Paper 10RT23.

Publications

Macroeconomic effects of carbon transition policies: an assessment based on the ECB’s New Area-Wide Model with a disaggregated energy sector

With Günter Coenen and Romanos Priftis (European Economic Review, forthcoming).  FREE VERSION (until 28 August) is HERE

The working paper version is available here: (ECB WP No. 2819). Also available as Central Bank of Ireland Research Technical Paper 8RT23.

Global Models for a Global Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Euro Area Economies

With Pablo Garcia, Pascal Jacquinot, Črt Lenarčič, and Kostas Mavromatis (Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 77, 103551, 2023)

The earlier working paper version is available here:  (ECB Working Paper No 2603). Also available in a shorter form as a SUERF Policy Brief No. 272.

Countercyclical Capital Regulation in a Small Open Economy DSGE Model

With Luca Onorante and Ansgar Rannenberg (Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 27(5), pages 1230-1267, 2023).

The earlier working paper version is available here.

Macroeconomic Effects of Tariffs Shocks: The Role of the Effective Lower Bound and the Labour Market

With Pascal Jacquinot and Massimiliano Pisani (Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 120, 2022).

The earlier working paper version is available here. (An even earlier title was: Nobody Wins: Protectionism and (Un)Employment In a Model-Based Analysis)

Cross-Border Bank Funding and Lending in a Monetary Union: Evidence from Slovenia

With Uroš Herman (Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 115(C), 2021).

An earlier version is available here.

Fiscal Policy Spillovers in a Monetary Union

With Graeme Walsh (Open Economies Review, vol. 32(5), 2021).

Financing Government Investment and Its Implications for Public Capital: A Small Open Economy Perspective

With Rónán Hickey and Diarmaid Smyth (Economic Modelling, vol. 93(C), pages 620-641, 2020).

The earlier working paper version is here.

Economic Migration and Business Cycles In a Small Open Economy with Matching Frictions

(Economic Modelling, vol. 81, pages 604-620, 2019).

Link to the earlier working paper version is here.

Comparing Fiscal Multipliers across Models and Countries in Europe

with Juha Kilponen, Massimiliano Pisani, Sebastian Schmidt, Vesna Corbo, Tibor Hledik, Josef Hollmayr, Samuel Hurtado, Paulo Julio, Dmitry Kulikov, Matthieu Lemoine, Henrik Lundvall, Jose Maria, Brian Micallef, Dimitris Papageorgiou, Jakub Rysanek, Dimitrios Sideris, Caros Thomas, Gregory de Walque (International Journal of Central Banking, vol. 15(3), pages 285-320, 2019).

Link to the earlier working paper version is here.

Flexibility of New Hires’ Earnings in Ireland

with Reamonn Lydon (Labour Economics, vol. 53(C), pages 112-127, 2018).

Link to the earlier working paper version is here.

Labor Tax Reforms, Cross-Country Coordination, and the Monetary Policy Stance in the Euro Area: A Structural Model-Based Approach

with Pascal Jacquinot and Massimiliano Pisani (International Journal of Central Banking, vol. 14(3), pages 65-140, 2018).

Link to the earlier working paper version is here.

The Macroeconomic Effects of the LTV and LTI Ratios in Ireland

with Ansgar Rannenberg (Applied Economics Letters, vol. 25(21), pages 1507-1511, 2018).

Government Expenditure Composition and Fiscal Policy Spillovers in Small Open Economies within a Monetary Union

with Daragh Clancy and Pascal Jacquinot (Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 48(C), pages 305-326, 2016).

Link to the earlier working paper version is here.

Pigou Cycles in Closed and Open Economies with Matching Frictions

with Wouter J. den Haan (NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, vol. 7(1), pages 193-234, 2011).

Chapters and some of the policy work

Economic Migration with Matching Frictions and Business Cycle Amplification 

Chapter in Understanding Migration with Macroeconomics, by Vella, E., Caballé, J., Llull, J. (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 

Irish Government Investment, Financing and the Public Capital Stock 

with Ronan Hickey and Diarmaid Smyth (Central Bank of Ireland, Quarterly Bulletin Articles, pages 64-76, 2018).

Using the Countercyclical Capital Buffer: Insights from a structural model

with Martin O'Brien (Central Bank of Ireland, Economic Letters, 7/EL/18, 2018).

Synchronization and Decoupling of Cycles in Slovenia 

with Boštjan Jazbec and Uroš Herman (Financial Cycles and the Real Economy, chapter 6, pages 77-95, 2014).

Work in progress (or regress...)

Tail-Based Pricing of Stability Notes

with Casper G. de Vries.