Serene Tan

Associate Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

National University of Singapore

Curriculum Vitae

Published Papers

Income Inequality and Endogenous Market Structure under Directed Search, 2022, Journal of Economic Theory, 201, article 105423, with Supplementary Appendix A, Supplementary Appendix B, and Supplementary Appendix C. An older version of the paper can be found here.

Wage-Vacancy Contracts and Multiplicity of Equilibria in a Directed Search Model of the Labor Market (with Nicolas Jacquet and John Kennes), 2019, Canadian Journal of Economics, 52(2), 784-821. The Supplementary Appendix can be found here.

Money and Asset Prices with Uninsurable Risks (with Nicolas Jacquet), December 2012, Journal of Monetary Economics, 59(8), 784-797. This paper was previously circulated under the title "The Liquidity Effects of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices".

Wage-Vacancy Contracts with Coordination Frictions (with Nicolas Jacquet), May 2012, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 147, 1064-1104 (Old title: Labor Hoarding Contracts with Coordination Frictions)

Directed Search and Firm Size, February 2012, International Economic Review, Vol. 53(1), 95-113. The Supplementary Appendix can be found here.

Money, Bargaining, and Risk Sharing (with Nicolas Jacquet), October 2011, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 43(7) (Supplement), 419-442.

On the Segmentation of Markets (with Nicolas Jacquet), August 2007, Journal of Political Economy, 115(4), 639-664.

Matching with Multiple Applications Revisited (with James Albrecht, Pieter Gautier and Susan Vroman), October 2003, Economics Letters Volume 84, Issue 3, September 2004, 311-314.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

Directing Search, November 2023..

Monetary Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Growth (with Nicolas Jacquet)

Illiquid Housing and Households' Portfolio Choice (with Nicolas Jacquet).

Money, Liquidity and Asset Prices with Endogenously Incomplete Markets (with Nicolas Jacquet).

Unpublished Papers

Search, Heterogeneity, and the Dynamics of Segmentation (with Nicolas Jacquet), 2005.

Matching with Multiple Applications: A Correction , July 2003.

Email: serene.tan.economics@gmail.com