Roc Armenter : Research

Journal of Monetary Economics, forthcoming. With Amartya Lahiri

Review of Economic Dynamics, 13(2), pp.403-423, 2010. With Francesc Ortega.

We ask whether worker mobility has undermined the ability of U.S. states to redistribute income. We build a tractable model where both migration decisions and redistribution policies are jointly determined. Our model features a large number of heterogeneous regions and skilled and unskilled workers with idiosyncratic migration costs.

European Economic Review, forthcoming. With Francesc Ortega.

We analyze the joint determination of income redistribution and migration flows across fiscally independent regions. In our model, regional governments lack commitment so their policy announcements must be credible, and redistribution between skilled and unskilled workers is bounded by informational constraints.

The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 9(1), art. 35. With Martin Bodenstein.

Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming. With Stefania Albanesi.

Journal of Public Economics, 92 (10-11), pp. 2275-2281. 2008.

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 40 (5), pp. 867-896.

with Martin Bodenstein, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 12 (5), pp. 664 -693.

Review of Economic Dynamics, 10(1), pp. 31-54. 2007.

Experimental Economics, 10 (3), 2007, pp. 221-234. With Antonio Cabrales and Rosemarie Nagel.