Are macro-economists mistaken in ignoring bargaining between spouses? The stationarity, since the mid 1970s, of married-menís average weekly hours of paid labor suggests that the inclusion of bargaining between spouses is essential for understanding the labor supply trends of married women....

¿Puede el Gobierno español generar más ingresos fiscales haciendo más progresivo el Impuesto sobre la Renta de las Personas Físicas? Para responder a esta pregunta, construimos una economía de ciclo vital con riesgo sobre la productividad laboral no asegurable y oferta laboral endógena....

Este estudio utiliza datos de dos encuestas de individuos en Estados Unidos, el Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) y el Medical Expenses Panel Survey (MEPS), para analizar posibles diferencias en el estado de salud entre las personas casadas y las solteras, ambas en edad de trabajar. Cuando...

Este artículo utiliza datos administrativos sobre declaraciones del IRPF con objeto de caracterizar la distribución de la renta antes y después de impuestos, la distribución de la cuota del impuesto y la distribución de los beneficios fiscales, tanto para los individuos como para los...

Algunos trabajadores entran en el mercado laboral debido a la pérdida de empleo de sus cónyuges. Este fenómeno se denomina «efecto del trabajador añadido» (AWE, por las siglas en inglés, Added Worker Effect). En este trabajo proponemos una nueva metodología para calcular el AWE, que...

Chapter 1: Previous work on the denomination structure of currency treats as exogenous the distribution of transactions and the denominations held by people. Here, by way of a matching model, both are endogenous. In the model, trades in pairwise meetings alternate in time with the opportunity to...

In this thesis, I empirically investigate the selection process and the evolution of an industry in response to aggregate shocks.In the first essay (Chapter 2), I develop a new way to quantify the effects of import competition on intra-industry patterns of job creation and destruction and...

In this thesis, we study both firms and markets, but in an environment in which much greater attention is placed on the workings of the market than has been the case heretofore. Specifically, we analyze the make-or-buy decision within a dynamic environment, in which firms search for trading...

This study shows that despite the shortness of time-series and significant structural change the economies of three transition countries Russia, Armenia, and the Czech Republic have started to demonstrate regularities that can be used in some types of econometric forecasting. The high-frequency...

CHAPTER 1: Immiserizing Deindustrialization: A Dynamic Trade Model with Credit ConstraintsIn this essay I develop an open economy dynamic model with bequests and credit constraints. The agricultural sector uses only labor, the industrial sector needs an indivisible investment. Under autarky,...