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We argue that labor mobility does not lead to a ''race to the bottom,'' where countries drastically cut redistributive transfers in order to attract skilled workers. The basis of our argument is that these cuts are not credible policies. We propose a two country model where competition for...
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idea is that in a realistic model of taxation and auditing, incentives which are sufficient to induce truth-telling when …
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which rely not only on labor, but also on capital in the production function. In the presence of capital, the choice of … bargaining, the welfare theorems do not hold, due to a hold-up effect in capital and a hiring externality, so that solving a …
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financial wealth, and much less housing wealth, than the household sector in most of Europe. We address this fact using a …
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We construct a bilateral search model of the housing market in which agents differ in their flow rewards while …
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In a model with housing collateral, the ratio of housing wealth to human wealth shifts the conditional distribution of … consumption growth. In the model, a decrease in house prices reduces the collateral value of housing, increases household exposure …. Regional risk-sharing patterns for US metropolitan areas lend direct support to the housing collateral channel. In times with a …
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