Contact Information
Ellen R. McGrattan
4-161 Hanson Hall
612-625-6714
erm@umn.edu
Office Hours
By appointment
Mailing Address
Department of Economics
University of Minnesota
4-101 Hanson Hall
1925 4th St S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Tobey Kass
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Tobey studies the impact of labor market policies on choices of contractors and employees. To study these policies, Tobey develops a model that incorporates trade-offs work workers---greater flexibility and independence versus higher pay/benefits---and trade-offs for firms that may need temporary workers to fulfill production commitments when hiring/firing costs are significant.
Joao Rodrigues
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Joao studies the impact of land policies in developing nations that are used ostensibly to provide means of insurance and redistribution. To study these policies, Joao extends the incomplete market economy of Aiyagari to include heterogeneity in agricultural productivities and rights to land. He calibrates the model using micro data from Malawi and uses the model to conduct counterfactual policy analysis.
Xiaohan Zhang
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Xiaohan studies the sources of decline in US manufacturing employment in a two-country general equilibrium model that includes multinational production. She finds that the main drivers of employment changes are rest-of-world productivity and trade costs, although the contributions of these factors depend on the inclusion of multinational production because measures of TFP and locations of production change when she introduces multinationals.