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Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Author "ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador"
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Title:How Important is Intra-Household Risk Sharing for Savings and Labor Supply?
Author(s):ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador; SIASSI, NawidDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:While it is recognized that the family is primarily an institution for risk sharing, little is known about the quantitative effects of this informal source of insurance on savings and labor supply. In this paper, we present ...
Title:Labor-Market Volatility in the Search-And-Matching Model: The Role of Investment-Specific Technology Shocks
Author(s):FACCINI, Renato; ORTIGUEIRA, SalvadorDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Shocks to investment-specific technology have been identified as a main source of U.S. aggregate output volatility. In this paper, we present a model with frictions in the labor market and explore the contribution of these ...
Title:Labor-Market Volatility in the Search-and-Matching Model: The Role of Investment-Specific Technology Shocks
Author(s):FACCINI, Renato; ORTIGUEIRA, SalvadorDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Shocks to investment-specific technology have been identified as a main source of U.S. aggregate output volatility. In this paper we assess the contribution of these shocks to the volatility of labor market variables, ...
Title:Markov-Perfect Optimal Fiscal Policy: The Case of Unbalanced Budgets
Author(s):ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador; PEREIRA, JoanaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We study optimal income taxation and public debt policy in a neoclassical economy pop-
ulated by infinitely-lived households and a benevolent government. The government makes
sequential decisions on the provision of a ...
Title:Skills, Search and the Persistence of High Unemployment
Author(s):ORTIGUEIRA, SalvadorDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The persistence of high-unemployment rates in Europe has fueled theories advocating the existence of multiple natural rates of unemployment. Labor-market institutions and increasing returns to scale have been singled out ...
