This paper studies the effects of fiscal policy on growth in an environment where heterogeneous entrepreneurs face collateral borrowing constraints and human capital accumulation is influenced by public spending. In such an environment, the paper first shows that positive public spending on...

This paper addresses the question of whether fear of floating in developing countries can be justified as optimal discretionary monetary policy in a dollarized economy where intermediate goods importers face Bernanke-type credit constraint. Exchange rate depreciation not only worsens the...

This paper explains how mortgage market liberalization can introduce greater volatility in the housing market, which is a stylized fact documented from OECD countries, with a DSGE model where households face a credit constraint and housing is used as collateral. The housing collateral constraint...

This paper explains how mortgage market liberalization can introduce greater volatility in the housing market. It begins by documenting two stylized facts for OECD countries that models with perfect credit markets fail to explain: (i) housing investment is about five times as volatile as output...

This paper explains how mortgage market liberalization can introduce greater volatility in the housing market, which is a stylized fact documented from OECD countries, with a DSGE model where households face a credit constraint and housing is used as collateral. The housing collateral constraint...

This paper quantitatively shows that the wealth effect on leisure plays a determining role in generating negative co-movement of employment across countries. Hence, even without restrictions on international capital mobility, a positive cross-country correlation of labor can be obtained by...

This paper studies the effects of financial deepening and public spending on human capital formation, working hours and growth in a model with financial frictions and productivity heterogeneity. The paper first shows that in the range of capital tax rates that attains a balanced growth path,...

We first argue theoretically that labor force graying caused by younger workers shrinking and older workers growing leads to more employment of foreign workers. We then use Japan’s prefectural data to estimate that on average a 10 percent fall between 2010 and 2015 in the relative number of...