"Preference Heterogeneity versus Economic Incentives: What Determines the Choice to Give Care to the Elderly?" (with Daniel Barczyk and Yu Kyung Koh)
This draft: Nov. 2025
"Family Transfers and Consumption Insurance: A Lifecycle Model" (with Daniel Barczyk and Sean Fahle)
This draft: Sept. 2025
"Risk-sharing with a central authority: Free-riding, lack of commitment, and bail-outs" (with Rubén Veiga-Duarte)
This draft: July 2025
"Continuous-time speed for discrete-time models: A Markov-chain approximation method" (with Ivo Bakota)
This draft: April 2024.
"Inequality and Asset Prices" (with Daniel Barczyk)
This version: July 2016. Other versions of this paper were circulated under the title "The ABC of Incomplete-Market Economies with Correlated Shocks".
"Great Opportunities or Poor Alternatives: Self-Employment, Unemployment and Paid Employment over the Business Cycle" (with Ana Millán and Ludo Visschers)
First draft: Jan. 2014, preliminary and incomplete)
"Does the Real Interest Rate Drive Investment? A Structural-Estimation Approach"
This version: Aug. 2013. The previous version of this paper was circulated under the title "Bayesian Estimation of a Dynamic Partial-Equilibrium Model for Investment".)
"Being Young in Spain and the Scars from Recessions" (with Andrés Erosa and Ismael Gálvez)
Forthcoming in Economic Journal (Oct. 2025)
"Save, Spend or Give? A Model of Housing and Family Insurance in Old Age" (with Daniel Barczyk and Sean Fahle)
Review of Economic Studies, 90 (5), 2023: 2116–2187.
short article (uc3nomics blog)
"Blast from the Past: The Altruism Model is Richer than you Think" (with Daniel Barczyk)
Journal of Economic Theory, 198, 2021
"Long-Term Care across Europe and the U.S.: The Role of Informal and Formal Care" (with Daniel Barczyk)
Fiscal Studies, 40(3), 2019: 329-373
Stata do-files
short VoxEU article
short article in Spanish in the Blog Ágora of Fundación Ramón Areces, which financed this research project to a great extent
"Evaluating Long-Term Care Policy Options, Taking the Family Seriously" (with Daniel Barczyk)
Review of Economic Studies, 85(2), 2018: 766-809
"Altruistically-Motivated Transfers under Uncertainty" (with Daniel Barczyk)
Quantitative Economics, 5(3), 2014: 705-749
computational appendix with an introduction to the Markov-chain approximation method for continuous-time optimization problems
"A Dynamic Model of Altruistically-Motivated Transfers" (with Daniel Barczyk)
Review of Economic Dynamics, 17(2), 2014: 303-328
"Vintage Human Capital and Learning Curves"
Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, 40, 2014: 154-178
"Experience vs. Obsolescence: A Vintage-Human-Capital Model"
Journal of Economic Theory, 150, 2014: 709-739
job-market slides (with an application to German earnings data)