Papers Under Review:
• "Block Recursive Equilibria for Stochastic Models of Search on the Job ," (with Guido Menzio), 2009, accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Theory .
• "Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle," (with Guido Menzio), 2008.
• "An Equilibrium Theory of Learning, Search and Wages," (with Francisco M. Gonzalez), 2008.
• "Vehicle Currency," (with Michael B. Devereux), 2008.
• "Liquidity, Innovation and Growth," (with Aleksander Berentsen and Mariana Rojas Breu), 2009.
• "Liquidity, Interest Rates and Output," 2004.
• "Currency Areas and Monetary Coordination," (with Qing Liu), International Economic Review, forthcoming.
Research Papers:
Publications In Peer-Refereed Journals:
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"Directed Search for Equilibrium Wage-Tenure Contracts," Econometrica 77 (2009), 561-584.
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"Currency Areas and Monetary Coordination," (with Qing Liu), International Economic Review, forthcoming.
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"Efficiency Improvement from Restricting the Liquidity of Nominal Bonds", Journal of Monetary Economics 55 (2008), 1025-1037 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2008.06.002).
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"Friedman Meets Hosios: Efficiency in Search Models of Money", with Aleksander Berentsen and Guillaume Rocheteau, Economic Journal 117 (2007), 174-195.
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"Viewpoint: A Microfoundation of Monetary Economics";
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"The Variability of the Velocity of Money in a Search Model", with Weimin Wang, Journal of Monetary Economics 53 (2006), 537-571.
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"Directed Search on the Job and the Wage Ladder", with Alain Delacroix, International Economic Review 47 (2006), 651-699.
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"Signaling in the Internet Craze of Initial Public Offerings," with Melanie Cao, Journal of Corporate Finance 12 (2006), 818-833.
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"Wage
Differentials, Discrimination and Efficiency", European Economic
Review 50 (2006), 849-875.
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"Nominal Bonds and Interest
Rates", International Economic Review 45 (2005), 579-612.
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"Frictional Assignment, Part II: Infinite
Horizon and Inequality", Review of Economic
Dynamics 8 (2005), 106-137.
Part I is "Frictional
Assignment. I. Efficiency", Journal of Economic Theory 98 (2001), 232-260.
Some materials of both parts I and II appeared as:
"Frictional
Assignment", 1998.
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"The Extent of the Market and Optimal Specialization", Economic Theory
25 (2005), 333-351.
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working paper version, 2001.
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"A
Model of Bureaucracy and Corruption", with Ted Temzelides, International Economic Review
45 (2004), 873-908.
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"Search, Price Dispersion and Welfare", with Brian Peterson, Economic Theory
24 (2004), 907-932.
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"International Borrowing, Specialization, and Unemployment in a Small
Open Economy", with Patrick Osakwe, Review of
International Economics 12 (2004), 41-59.
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"A Fundamental Theory of Exchange Rates and Direct
Currency Trades", with Allen Head, Journal of
Monetary Economics 50 (2003), 1555-1591.
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"A Directed Search Model of Inequality with
Heterogeneous Skills and Skill-Biased Technology". Review of
Economic Studies 69 (2002), 467-491.
An earlier version:
"Unskilled Workers in an Economy with
Skill-biased Technology", 1998.
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"Product Market and the Size-Wage
Differential", International Economic Review 43 (2002), 21-54.
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"Pricing and Matching with
Frictions", with
Kenneth Burdett and Randall Wright, Journal of Political Economy
109 (2001, no.5), 1060-1085.
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"Frictional
Assignment. I. Efficiency", Journal of Economic Theory 98 (2001), 232-260.
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"Liquidity,
Bargaining, and Multiple Equilibria in a Search Monetary Model", Annals
of Economics and Finance 2 (2001), 191-217.
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"Screening, Bidding, and the Loan Market
Tightness", with Melanie Cao,
European Finance Review 5 (2001), 21-61.
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"Bargains, Barter, and Money," with
Merwan Engineer, Review of Economic Dynamics 4 (2001), 188-209.
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"Coordination, Matching, and Wages," with Melanie Cao, Canadian Journal of
Economics 33 (2000), 1009-1033.
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"Innovation, Imitation, and Welfare-Improving Cycles", with Patrick Francois, Journal of
Economic Theory 85 (1999), 226-257.
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"Search, Inflation, and Capital Accumulation",
Journal of Monetary Economics 44
(1999), 81-103.
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"Fashion and Wealth
Accumulation", Economic Theory 14 (1999), 439-461.
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"Labor Market Search and the Dynamic Effects of
Taxes and Subsidies", with Quan Wen, Journal of Monetary Economics
43 (1999), 457-495.
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"Money, Capital, and the Redistributive Effect of Monetary Policies",
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 23 (1999), 565-590.
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"Search for a Monetary Propagation
Mechanism", Journal of Economic
Theory 81 (1998), 314-352.
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"Asymmetry, Imperfectly Transferable Utility, and Fiat Money in
Improving the Terms of Trade", with Merwan Engineer, Journal of
Monetary Economics 41 (1998), 153-183.
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"Bargaining with Surplus Destruction", with Lutz-Alexander Busch and Quan Wen,
Canadian Journal of Economics 31 (1998), 915-932.
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"Stochastic Relation between Money and Capital in an Economy with
Spatially Separated Markets", Review of Economic Dynamics 1 (1998), 754-780.
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"Money and Specialization",
Economic Theory 10 (1997),
99-113.
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"Labor Market Search and Capital Accumulation: Some Analytical
Results", with Quan Wen, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 21 (1997), 1747-1776.
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"A Divisible Search Model of Fiat
Money", Econometrica 65
(1997), 75-102.
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"Credit and Money in a Search Model with Divisible
Commodities", Review of Economic Studies 63 (1996), 627-652.
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"Money and Prices: A Model of Search and
Bargaining", Journal of
Economic Theory 67 (1995), 467-496.
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"Asymmetric Information, Credit Rationing, and Economic Growth",
Canadian Journal of Economics 29 (1996), 665-687.
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"Weakly Nonseparable Preferences and Distortionary Taxes in a Small
Open Economy", International Economic Review 35 (1994), 411-428.
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"Habits and Time
Preference", with Larry Epstein, International
Economic Review 34 (1993), 61-84.
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"Capital Accumulation and the Current Account in a Two-Country
Model", with Michael Devereux, Journal of International Economics 30 (1991), 1-25.
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"Rothschild-Stiglitz Competitive Insurance Market under Quasi-linear
Preferences", Economic Letters 27 (1988), 27-30.
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"Rational Expectation Equilibrium under Quasilinear Preferences: A
Diagrammatic Approach", Economic Letters 26 (1988), 107-110.
Other Publications:
• "Search Theory; New Perspectives," New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition, Macmillan (forthcoming).
• "Tariffs, Unemployment, and the Current Account: An Intertemporal Equilibrium Model," 2001, in
Money, Factor Mobility and Trade: Essays in Honor of Robert A. Mundell (pp.467-504), edited by Guillermo Calvo, Rudiger Dornbusch and Maurice Obstfeld, MIT press, Cambridge.
• "Monetary theory and policy," 2002, in Xiandai Jingji Xue Yu Jingrong Xue Qianyan Fazhan (translation: The Frontiers and Recent Developments in Economics and Finance), pp131-209, edited by Guoqiang Tian, Shangwu Press, Beijing.
• "The Research Agenda: Search Theory beyond the Matching Function," 2000, Newsletter 1 (issue 2), Society for Economic Dynamics.
• "Discussion on Credit Crunch, Bank Lending, and Monetary Policy: A Model of Financial Intermediation with Heterogeneous Projects," 1999, in Money, Monetary Policy, and Transmission Mechanisms (pp. 341-345), edited by Kevin Clinton and Walter Engert, Bank of Canada, Ottawa.