JIM COSTAIN
Papers on Unemployment Insurance

My dissertation analyzed the costs and benefits of unemployment insurance (UI) in a job matching economy with risk averse workers. The main paper is UI with Endogenous Search Intensity and Precautionary Saving.

In my next paper, A Simple Model of Multiple Equilibria Based on Risk, I studied how portfolio choice under imperfect insurance may give rise to strategic complementarities and amplify fluctuations.

My latest papers, joint with Michael Reiter, search for a matching model consistent with the observed effects of labor market policy and business cycles (BCs, UI, and the Calibration of Matching Models), and then use this specification to study optimal countercyclical policy in a real business cycle model with imperfect insurance (Stabilization versus Insurance).

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Stabilization versus Insurance: Welfare Effects of Procyclical Taxation under Incomplete Markets.
Joint with Michael Reiter (U. Pompeu Fabra). Nov. 2004; revised as U. Pompeu Fabra Economics Working Paper #890, Sept. 2005.

Business Cycles, Unemployment Insurance, and the Calibration of Matching Models.
Joint with Michael Reiter (U. Pompeu Fabra). CESifo Working Paper #1008, Aug. 2003; U. Pompeu Fabra Economics Working Paper #872, July 2005; revised Oct. 2006.

Computing Business Cycles with Endogenous Risk.
Joint with Michael Reiter (U. Pompeu Fabra). March 2001.

A Simple Model of Multiple Equilibria Based on Risk.
U. Pompeu Fabra Economics Working Paper #407, July 1999; revised Oct. 2000.

On the Quantitative Importance of Wage Bargaining Models.
U. Pompeu Fabra Economics Working Paper #262, Jan. 1998.

Unemployment Insurance with Endogenous Search Intensity and Precautionary Saving.
U. Pompeu Fabra Economics Working Paper #243, Nov. 1997. Latest version: Nov. 1999.

General Equilibrium Unemployment Insurance: the Exponential Utility Case.
Nov. 1995.


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