A key question for Egypt's long-term economic and political prospects of is whether the "rent-seeking coalition" consisting of a network of National Democratic Party (NDP) members and military officers has been truly uprooted by the fall of Mubarak's regime. One possibility is that this network,...

This paper develops and estimates a general equilibrium rational expectations model with search and multiple equilibria where aggregate shocks have a permanent effect on the unemployment rate. If agents' wealth decreases, the unemployment rate increases for a potentially indefinite period. This...

This paper introduces incomplete insurance against idioyncratic labour income risk into an otherwise standard New Keynesian business cycle model with involuntary unemployment. Following an adverse monetary policy shock that lowers aggregate demand, job creation is discouraged and unemployment...

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly improve upon frontier technologies, and productivity improvements are drawn in a stochastic manner. The presence of positive knowledge spillovers implies that the decentralized...

Past government spending in Japan is currently imposing a significant fiscal bur- den that is reflected in a net debt to GNP ratio above 100 percent. In addition, the aging of Japanese society implies that public expenditures and transfers payments relative to GNP are projected to continue to...

In the US economy most of the structural transformation from manufacturing to services occur in recessions. Typically recessions start with a contraction in manufacturing employment followed by an increase in service employment. This pattern has changed in recent recession in the US. The...

Although restrictive immigration policies are pervasive in developed countries, there is a tendency to allow skilled labor to migrate more freely than unskilled labor. In models where free trade in product markets implies factor price equalization, after adjusting for efficiency differences, as...

In this paper we study the role of social insurance, namely old-age pensions, disability insurance and healthcare, in accounting for the differing labor supply patterns of older individuals across OECD countries. To this end, we develop a life cycle model of labor supply and health with...

Over the past 20 years, China has experienced one of the most remarkable growth episodes in modern economic history which has been largely fueled by growth in total factor productivity (TFP). This rise followed major economic reforms that reduced barriers to entry on private businesses. China...

We develop a model of matching where participants have finite information processing capacity. The equilibrium of our model covers the middle ground between the equilibria of random matching and the directed search literatures and reproduces them as limiting cases. Our theory of targeted search...