Selected Bibliography for Robert Shimer

Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College

Home page of Robert Shimer



Published Works

"Comment on 'Are the Long-Term Unemployed on the Margins of the Labor Market?'." Robert Shimer; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2014, (Spring), pp. 287-99.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/eca.2014.0008


"Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality." Veronica Guerrieri and Robert Shimer; American Economic Review, 2014, 104(7), pp. 1875-908. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.7.1875

"Job Search, Labor-Force Participation, and Wage Rigid," Robert Shimer, in D. Acemoglu, M. Arellano and E. Deke: Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Tenth World Congress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 197-234

"Wage Rigidities and Jobless Recoveries." Robert Shimer; Journal of Monetary Economics, 2012, 59, Supplement(0), pp. S65-S77. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2012.10.024

"Reassessing the Ins and Outs of Unemployment." Robert Shimer; Review of Economic Dynamics, 2012, 15(2), pp. 127-48.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2012.02.001

"Search and Rest Unemployment." Fernando Alvarez and Robert Shimer; Econometrica, 2011, 79(1), pp. 75-122.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/ECTA7686

"Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium." Veronica Guerrieri, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright; Econometrica, 2010, 78(6), pp. 1823-62.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/ECTA8535

"The Labor Market in the Great Recession/Comments and Discussion." Robert J. Shimer; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2010, (Spring), pp. 65-69.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/eca.2002.0009

"Stock-Flow Matching." Ehsan Ebrahimy and Robert Shimer; Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 145(4), pp. 1325-53.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2010.02.012

"Convergence in Macroeconomics: The Labor Wedge." Robert Shimer; American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009, 1(1), pp. 280-97.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mac.1.1.280

"The Probability of Finding a Job." Robert Shimer; American Economic Review, 2008, 98(2), pp. 268-73.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.98.2.268

"Comment on 'the Timing of Labor Market Expansions: New Facts and a New Hypothesis'." Robert Shimer; NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2008, 23, pp. 59-72.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/593081

"Liquidity and Insurance for the Unemployed." Robert Shimer and Ivan Werning; American Economic Review, 2008, 98(5), pp. 1922-42.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.98.5.1922

"Mismatch." Robert Shimer; The American Economic Review, 2007, 97(4), pp. 1074 - 101.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.97.4.1074

"On-the-Job Search and Strategic Bargaining." Robert Shimer; European Economic Review, 2006, 50(4), pp. 811-30.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2006.01.008

"Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market: A Survey." Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright; Journal of Economic Literature, 2005, 43(4), pp. 959-88.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/002205105775362014

"The Assignment of Workers to Jobs in an Economy with Coordination Frictions." Robert Shimer; Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 113(5), pp. 996-1025.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/444551

"Discussion of Robert E. Hall's REStat Lecture "Employment Efficiency and Sticky Wages: Evidence from Flows in the Labor Market"." Robert Shimer; Review of Economics & Statistics, 2005, 87(3), pp. 408.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/0034653054638247

"The Cyclicality of Hires, Separations, and Job-to-Job Transitions." Robert J. Shimer; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2005, 87(4), pp. 493.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/05/07/Shimer.pdf

"The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies." Robert Shimer; American Economic Review, 2005, 95(1), pp. 25.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/0002828053828572

"Comment on 'the Business Cycle and the Life Cycle'." Robert Shimer; NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2004, 19, pp. 478.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3585349

"The Consequences of Rigid Wages in Search Models." Robert Shimer; Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2( 2-3), pp. 469.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40004920

"Current Unemployment, Historically Contemplated: Comments and Discussion." Lawrence F Katz and Robert Shimer; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2002, (1), pp. 125.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/brookings_papers_on_economic_activity/v2002/2002.1katz.pdf

"The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market." Robert Shimer; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001, 116(3), pp. 969-1007.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2696423

"Matching, Search, and Heterogeneity." Robert Shimer and Lones Smith; Advances in Macroeconomics, 2001, 1(1).
http://www.bepress.com/bejm/advances/vol1/iss1/art5

"Changes in Unemployment Duration and Labor-Force Attachment," Katharine G. Abraham and Robert Shimer, in A. B. Krueger and R. M. Solow: The Roaring Nineties: Can Full Employment Be Sustained? New York: Russell Sage Foundation; New York: Century Foundation Press, 2001, pp. 367-420

"Productivity Gains from Unemployment Insurance." Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer; European Economic Review, 2000, 44(7), pp. 1195-224.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0014-2921(00)00035-0

"Assortative Matching and Search." Robert Shimer and Lones Smith; Econometrica, 2000, 68(2), pp. 343-69.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2999430

"Wage and Technology Dispersion." Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer; Review of Economic Studies, 2000, 67(4), pp. 585-607.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2695940

"Holdups and Efficiency with Search Frictions." Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer; International Economic Review, 1999, 40(4), pp. 827-49.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2354.00043

"Why Is the U S Unemployment Rate So Much Lower?" Robert Shimer; NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 1999, 13, pp. 11-61.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4623732

"Efficient Unemployment Insurance." Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer; Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 107(5), pp. 893-928.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/250084

Essays in Search Theory; Robert J. Shimer; Ph.D Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996.
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10832

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