Martin Gervais
Research Interests
Macroeconomics; Optimal Policy; Life-Cycle Models; Public Finance; Risk
Sharing and Inequality
Teaching Fields
Macroeconomics
Publications
Consumption, Income, and Wealth Inequality in Canada, with Matthew Brzozowski, Paul Klein, and Michio Suzuki, Review of Economic Dynamics, Forthcoming.
Endogenous Debt Constraints in a Life-Cycle Model with an Application to Social Security, with David Andolfatto, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 32 (12), pp. 3745–3759, December 2008.
Uncertainty and the Specificity of Human Capital, with Igor Livshits and Césaire Meh, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 143 (1), pp. 469–498, November 2008.
Who Cares about Mortgage Interest Deductibility?, with Manish Pandey, Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 34 (1), pp. 1–24, March 2008.
Human Capital Investment and Debt Constraints, with David Andolfatto, Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 9 (1), pp. 52–67, January 2006.
Housing Taxation and Capital Accumulation, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 49 (7), pp. 1461–1489, October 2002.
Optimal Taxation in Life-Cycle Economies, with Andrés Erosa, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 105 (2), pp. 338–369, August 2002.
Optimal Taxation in Infinitely-Lived Agent and Overlapping Generations Models: A Review, with Andrés Erosa,
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Vol. 87 (2), pp. 23–44, Spring 2001.
Working Papers
On the Optimality of Age-Dependent Taxes and the Progressive U.S. Tax System.
Measuring Consumption Smoothing in CEX Data, with Paul Klein.
First-Time Home Buyers and Residential Investment Volatility, with Jonas Fisher. (Preliminary Version)
Why Has Homeownership Fallen Among the Young?, with Jonas Fisher.
Optimal Fiscal Policy over the Business Cycle with Productive Government Infrastructures, with Alessandro Mennuni. (Coming soon...)Courses
ECON6023
Macroeconomics