This paper models an entrepreneur's choice between investing in a safe activity or experimenting with a new risky one, and how much to invest in the "entrepreneurial capital" that would permit more effective use of the arriving information on the latter- how much to learn how to learn. Optimal...

We develop a tractable macroeconomic model with employment risk and labor market search in order evaluate the effects of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human...

We use data from the Survey of Consumer Finance and Survey of Income Program Participation to show that young households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the household dies. We develop a tractable macroeconomic model with human capital risk, age-dependent...

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance (JSA), on the output cost and welfare cost of recessions. The paper develops a tractable incomplete-market model with search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment,...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht auf Basis eines mikrofundierten makroökonomischen Modells der deutschen Volkswirtschaft die Auswirkungen verschiedener öffentlicher Investitionsprogramme auf die gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion, die Beschäftigung, die Verteilung und die fiskalische...

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance (JSA), on the output cost and welfare cost of recessions. The paper develops a tractable incomplete-market model with search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment,...

Kreditfinanzierte staatliche Investitionsprogramme können zur Sicherung der Generationengerechtigkeit beitragen, wenn sie Wachstumspotenziale stärken und die staatliche Schuldenquote langfristig senken. Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass zielgerichtete Investitionen in Infrastruktur, Hochschulen,...

This paper analyzes the optimal response of the social insurance system to a rise in labor market risk. To this end, we develop a tractable macroeconomic model with risk-free physical capital, risky human capital (labor market risk) and unobservable effort choice affecting the distribution of...

Die Studie untersucht auf Basis eines mikroökonomisch fundierten makro-ökonomischen Modells die Auswirkungen der Einführung der Kindergrundsicherung auf Kinderarmut, Chancengleichheit, Beschäftigung und Wirtschaftswachstum. Der Fokus liegt auf den langfristigen Effekten, die sich aus der...