- Accounting for Changes in the Homeownership Rate with Matthew Chambers and Don Schlagenhauf forthcoming in International Economic Review,
Media Coverage
Wall Street Journal: Mortgage Innovation Boosted Home Ownership
Business Week: A Troubled 'Ownership Society' , The Housing Bust's latest Blow
Calculated Risk: Home Builders and Homeownership Rates
Naples Daily News: Mortgage Bankers Go back to Basics
- Optimal Fiscal Policy in the Design of Social Security Reforms with Juan Carlos Conesa, in International Economic Review, February 2008.
- Optimal Taxation with Imperfect Competition and Increasing Returns to Specialization with Javier Coto and Fernando Sánchez-Losada, in Journal of the European Economic Association, December 2007.
- Optimal Response to a Transitory Demographic Shock in Social Security Financing, with Juan Carlos Conesa, forthcoming in "Strategies for Reforming Pension Schemes". Editors G. de Menil and P. Pestieau, MIT Press, 2007
- Overconsumption, Reference Groups, and Equilibrium Efficiency, in Economic Letters, (91) 2006.
- Recent Trends in Ownership, with William T. Gavin and Don Schlagenhauf, in Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 88 (5), 2006.
- The Status Quo Problem in Social Security Reforms, with Juan Carlos Conesa, in Macroeconomic Dynamics. vol. 7, 2003.
- A General Equilibrium Analysis of Two Social Security Reforms (in Spanish), in Investigaciones Económicas 2005.
- Reform of the Social Security System and Skill Acquisition (in Spanish), with Juan Carlos Conesa, in Investigaciones Económicas vol. XXIV (2) - May 2000.
- Fiscal System and Social Security Reform (in Spanish), with Juan Carlos Conesa, in Cuadernos Económicos de ICE, vol. 65, 2000.
- A Simple Model of Endogenous Retirement (in Spanish), with Antonio Manresa, in Cuadernos Económicos de ICE, vol. 64, 2000.
- The Financing of the Social Security System in Spain: Dynamic Aspects of a Reform (in Spanish), with Juan Carlos Conesa, in Hacienda Pública Española, vol. XXX, 2000.
Much of this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants SES-0649374, and Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (SEJ2006-02879, SEC2003-06080, SEC2001-3392), Generalitat de Catalunya (SGR01-00029, 1999-SGR16). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, or the Federal Reserve System.