This paper analyzes how relative housing wealth affects labor supply. Using China's great housing boom as a natural experiment, we examine this empirical question and find that an appreciation in relative housing wealth significantly reduces the average working hours. We also find that this...

This paper examines the efficiency of stable matchings in a framework of general equilibrium. In my model of a large private competitive economy, firms and managers form partnerships in an upstream labor (matching) market and then firm-manager pairs compete in a downstream goods market. I find...

This paper investigates how externalities from downstream competition shape sorting in upstream labor markets. We model it as a two-stage game: A first stage of simultaneous 1-to-1 matching between firms and managers and a second stage of Cournot competition among matched pairs. If firm...