Ljungqvist and Sargent (2017) (LS) show that unemployment fluctuations can be understood in terms of a quantity they … understanding unemployment fluctuations. We show how the LS framework can be adapted to incorporate risk premia. We derive an … show how to use properties of the artificial economy to deduce how risk premia affect unemployment dynamics in the original …

This paper introduces endogenous credit constraints in a search model of unemployment. These constraints generate …. Unemployed workers are hard to find jobs generating high and persistent unemployment …

Recent critiques have demonstrated that existing attempts to account for the unemployment volatility puzzle of search … reproduces the observed fluctuations in unemployment because hiring a worker is a risky investment with long-duration surplus … benefit from creating new matches greatly drops, leading to a large decline in job vacancies and an increase in unemployment …