Previous work documents that leaving school in an economic downturn persistently depresses career outcomes as measured by wages, earnings, and other markers of labor market success. In this study I test whether leaving school in an economic downturn influences access to employer-sponsored health...

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a global health and economic crisis. The entire world has faced a trade-off between health and recessionary effects. This paper investigates this trade-off according to a macro-dynamic perspective. We set up and simulate a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium...

Die Prognosen der Konjunkturexperten für 2014 haben sich als zu optimistisch erwiesen. Eine wesentliche Ursache für die sich ausbreitende Stagnation ist die unsichere weltwirtschaftliche Lage und die gedämpfte Konjunktur im Euroraum. Um die Konjunktur anzukurbeln, werden unterschiedliche...