Work in progress
- "Housing in growing economies," with Xavier Mateos-Planas and Roman Sustek.
- "Earnings and Wage Dynamics over the business cycle in the
Netherlands," with Mariacristina De Nardi, Marike
Knoef, Gonzalo Paz-Pardo, and Raun Van Oijen.
Papers
- "Endogenous grid method."
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- "Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth," with Martin
Blomhoff Holm and Thomas Pugh.
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- "Job Ladder, Human Capital and the Cost of Job Loss," with Richard Audoly and Federica De Pace.
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- "Non-linear Productivity and Investment Dynamics," with Julio Galvez, Beatriz Gonzalez, Juan Carlos
Ruiz-Garcia and Tatsuro Senga.
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- "Wage Risk and Government and Spousal Insurance," with Mariacristina De Nardi and Gonzalo Paz-Pardo. The Review of Economic Studies, 2024, forthcoming.
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Online Appendix Replication package
Coverage: VOXEU
- "Family and Government Insurance: Wage, Earnings, and Income Risks
in the Netherlands and the U.S.," with Mariacristina De Nardi,
Marike Knoef, Gonzalo Paz-Pardo, and Ralph Van Oijen. Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193.
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Coverage: VOXEU
- "Buffer-stock Saving and
Households' Response to Income Shocks," with Serafin
Frache and Winfried
Koeniger. International Economic
Review, 2020, 61.
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- "Nonlinear
household earnings dynamics, self-insurance, and welfare,"
with Mariacristina De Nardi and Gonzalo Paz-Pardo. Journal
of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18.
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Here you can
download the Markov chains used in the paper and R code to apply our
discretization method. Paper replication code.
- A previous, rather different, version of the above paper was
circulated as "The Implications of Richer Earnings Dynamics
for Consumption and Wealth" with Mariacristina De Nardi and Gonzalo
Paz-Pardo. NBER working paper no. 21917.
- "Markov-Chain
Approximations for Life-Cycle Models," with Giovanni
Gallipoli and Jutong
Pan. Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019, 34, 186-201.
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- "Fiscal
Stimulus with Learning-by-Doing," with Antonello
D'Alessandro and Leonardo Melosi. International Economic
Review, 2019, 60.
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- "Savings
and Wealth Inequality," with Mariacristina De Nardi. Review of
Economic Dynamics, 2017, 26, 280-300.
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- "Macro Models of Wealth Inequality," with
Mariacristina De Nardi and Fang Yang. In "After Piketty's `Capital in the 21st
century' : The Agenda for Economics and Inequality," Heather Boushey,
Bradford DeLong and Marshall Steinbaum eds., Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Coverage: VOXEU, Chicago
Fed Letter.
- "Job
Displacement Risk and Severance Pay," with Marco
Cozzi, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016, 84,
166-181.
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- "Education
and Crime over the Life Cycle," with Giovanni Gallipoli,
The Review of Economic
Studies, 2014, 81(4), 1484-1517.
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Replication package
- "A Generalized
Endogenous Grid Method for Non-Smooth and Non-Concave
Problems," The Review of Economic
Dynamics, 2014, 17(2), 329-344.
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Fortran code to
implement the algorithm and to replicate the simulations
in the paper.
- "Privately Optimal
Severance Pay," with Christopher J. Tyson,
forthcoming The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics,
Contributions, 2013, 13(1), 415-453.
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- "Matching, Wage
Rigidities and Efficient Severance Pay," The B.E. Journal
of Economic Analysis & Policy, Contributions, 2012,
12(1).
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- "When Do
Firing Taxes Matter?," Economics Letters, 2007, 97(1),
24-31.
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- "Termination
Restrictions and Investment in General Training," European
Economic Review, 2005, 49(6), 1479-1499.
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- "Does Divorce Law
Matter?," with Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti, Journal
of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2(4),
607-633.
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- "Reserve
Uncertainty and Speculative Attacks on Target
Zones," Economics Letters, 2001, 70(2), 223-228.
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- "Efficiency Wage
and Efficient Redundancy Pay," European Economic
Review, 2000, 44(8), 1473-1490.
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Keynote talks