The papers below are in .pdf format
Duration Dependent UI Payments and Equilibrium Unemployment (Joint with Melvyn Coles) Published in Economica (2004) Vol. 71 pp 83-97.
Ex ante Price Commitment with Renegotation in a Dynamic Market Equilibrium (Joint with Abhinay Muthoo)
Re-entitlement Effects with Duration Dependent Unemployment Insurance in a Stochestic Matching Equilibrium (Joint with Melvyn Coles) Published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2007) vol. 31 pp. 2879-98
Middlemen in Search Equilibrium Published in International Economic Review (2007) vol. 48 pp. 343-62.
Unpleasant Middlemen Published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2008) vol. 68 pp. 73-86
Marriage, Commitment and Divorce in a Matching Model with Differential Aging This is the theory component of a paper refered to elsewhere as "I eat so much because I love you." Published in Review of Economic Dynamics (2008) vol. 11 pp. 614-28.
Optimal Unemployment Insurance in a Matching Equilibrium (Joint with Melvyn Coles) Published in Journal of Labor Economics (2006) vol. 24 pp. 109-38
Endogenous Credit-card Acceptance in a Model of Precautionary Demand for Money (Joint with Luis-Raul Rodrigez) Published in Oxford Economic Papers (2005) vol. 57 pp. 157-68
A Theory of Minimum Wage Compliance (or Recognition of Unions) Formerly circulated under the title: Directed Search Without Wage Commitment and the Role of labor Market Institutions. Published in Labour Economics (2010) vol. 17 pp. 215-23
Matching with Interviews Published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2009) vol. 33 pp. 938-54.
Commitment, advertising and efficiency of two-sided investment in competitive search equilibrium (Slides) Published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2011) vol. 35 pp. 1017-23.
Inflation and welfare in retail markets: prior production and imperfectly directed search this paper formerly circulated under the title "Money in a model of prior production and imperfectly directed search" (Presentation Slides) Published in Journal of Money Credit and Banking (2013) vol. 45 pp. 821-45.
On the Firm's Component of Wage Dispersion: Endogenous Effort versus Search Frictions Published in Labour Economics (2016) vol. 42 pp. 2013-20
Statistical Discrimination from Composition Effects in the Market for Low-Skilled Workers Published in Labour Economics (2014) vol. 26 pp. 72-80.
Credit card acceptance, product quality and merchant fees (Slides)
Job creators, job creation and the tax code (Slides) Published in Journal of Public Economic Theory vol. 19.3 pp. 674-91.
Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Particpation Policy Published in Economics Letters (2015) Vol. 134 pp. 111-3
Labor Market Policy in the Presence of a Participation Externality with Ben Griffy Published in European Economic Review May 2022 vol. 144, 104081.
Unemployment Insurance and Job Polarization with Ben Griffy and Kai You. Published at Labour Economics 93 (April 2025) 102690
Endogenous gender-based discrimination in a model of simultaneous frictional labor and marriage markets with Roberto Bonilla. Accepted (and published online) at Economic Theory Bulletin