of different maturities.

To understand trans-Atlantic employment experiences in the post-World War II era, we enrich the environment of Ljungqvist and Sargent (2008) in ways that allow skill losses occasioned by involuntary job separations (`turbulence') to have further effects on labor market outcomes. Our model...

We analyze the democratic politics of a rule that separates capital and ordinary account budgets and allows the government to issue debt only to finance capital items. Many national governments followed this rule in the 18th and 19th centuries and most US states do so today. Despite its...

We first scrutinize and challenge Prescott's (2002, 2004) quantitative analysis of the role of differences in taxes in explaining cross-country differences in labor market outcomes, and then defend an alternative model that assigns an important role to cross-country differences in social...