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Can a model with limited labor market insurance explain standard macro- and labor market data jointly? We seek to construct a monetary model in which: i) the unemployed are worse off than the employed, i.e. unemployment is involuntary and ii) the labor force participation rate varies with the...
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We use a standard quantitative business cycle model with nominal price and wage rigidities to estimate two measures of economic ineffciency in recent U.S. data: the output gap - the gap between the actual and effcient levels of output - and the labor wedge - the wedge between households'...
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In central theories of monetary non-neutrality the Ramsey optimal inflation rate varies between the negative of the real interest rate and zero. This paper explores how the interaction of nominal wage and search and matching frictions affect the policy prescription. We show that adding the...
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economy and investigates the impact of policy breaks on the estimation procedure. We estimate a DSGE model on Swedish data … latter. The external sector plays an important role in the economy and the international transmission mechanism is … output and employment, but also to a depreciated currency, higher inflation and a more volatile economy. We also show …
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are sufficient for replicating the flex-price economy. If energy is used in production there will be deviations from …
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from an estimated model of the Swedish economy instead suggests that country-specific shocks have been important for … fluctuations in the Swedish economy since 1993, implying that EMU membership could be costly. The model also indicates that the … exchange rate has to a large extent acted to destabilize, rather than stabilize, the Swedish economy, pointing to the costs of …
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