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José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 130
Citations - 11143
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Consumption (economics) & Productivity. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 130 publications receiving 10500 citations. Previous affiliations of José-Víctor Ríos-Rull include Carnegie Mellon University & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: a macroeconomic analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a version of the neoclassical growth model is used in which the key feature of aggregate technology is capital-skill complementarity: the elasticity of substitution is higher between capital equipment and unskilled workers than between skilled workers and capital equipment.
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Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: A macroeconomic analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework that provides a simple, explicit economic mechanism for understanding skill-biased technological change in terms of observable variables and use the framework to evaluate the fraction of variation in the skill premium that can be accounted for by changes in observed factor quantities.
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Financial Integration, Financial Development, and Global Imbalances
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the relationship between financial integration and the composition of foreign portfolios and find that countries with negative net foreign asset positions maintain positive net holdings of nondiversifiable equity and foreign direct investment.
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Accounting for the U.S. Earnings and Wealth Inequality
TL;DR: The authors show that a theory of earnings and wealth inequality, based on the optimal choices of ex ante identical households that face uninsured idiosyncratic shocks to their endowments of efficiency labor units, accounts for the U.S. earnings inequality almost exactly.
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A Quantitative Theory of Unsecured Consumer Credit with Risk of Default
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the general equilibrium of an economy in which households smooth consumption by means of both a riskless asset and unsecured loans with the option to default.