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Cosmin L. Ilut

Professor of Economics
Economics
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097
238 Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708

Featured Works


Slow to hire, quick to fire: Employment dynamics with asymmetric responses to news

Journal article Journal of Political Economy · October 1, 2018 Featured Publication Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro-and microdata. In particular, they generate countercyclical move ... Full text Open Access Cite