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Costain, James

Staff Economist

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Fields of interest

Business cycles, Near-rational choice, Labor market dynamics

JEL Codes

  • E3, E24, E52, E63, E71

The term structure of interest rates in a heterogeneous monetary union James Costain, Galo Nuño and Carlos Thomas

JEL Codes: 2223

Published in Journal of Finance, vol. LXXX, nº 4, August 2025, pp. 2389-2434Opens in new window.

Monetary policy implications of state-dependent prices and wages James Costain, Anton Nakov and Borja Petit

JEL Codes: 1910

Published in: Economic Journal, Volume 132, Issue 642, pp 546–581, February 2022Opens in new window

Costly decisions and sequential bargaining James Costain

JEL Codes: 1729

Fiscal delegation in a monetary union: instrument assignment and stabilization properties Henrique S. Basso and James Costain

JEL Codes: 1710

Fiscal delegation in a monetary union with decentralized public spending Henrique S. Basso and James Costain

JEL Codes: 1311

Logit price dynamics James Costain and Anton Nakov

JEL Codes: 1301

Smoothing shocks and balancing budgets in a currency union James Costain and Beatriz de Blas

JEL Codes: 1207

Precautionary price stickiness James Costain and Anton Nakov

JEL Codes: 1122

Published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 58, September 2015, pp. 218-234Opens in new window

Employment fluctuations in a dual labor market James Costain, Juan F. Jimeno and Carlos Thomas

JEL Codes: 1013

Wage, inflation and employment dynamics with labour market matching Kai Christoffel, James Costain, Gregory de Walque, Keith Kuester, Tobias Linzert, Stephen Millard y Olivier Pierrard

JEL Codes: 0918

Dynamics of the price distribution in a general model of state-dependent pricing James Costain y Antón Nákov

JEL Codes: 0831

Price adjustments in a general model of state-dependent pricing James Costain y Anton Nakov

JEL Codes: 0824

Employment fluctuations with downward wage rigidity: the role of moral hazard James Costain and Marcel Jansen

JEL Codes: 0632