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This paper discusses the consequences of introducing imperfectly competitive product markets into an otherwise standard neoclassical growth model. We pay particular attention to the consequences of imperfect competition for the explanation of fluctuations in aggregate economic activity. Market...
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This paper discusses the consequences of introducing imperfectly competitive product markets into an otherwise standard neoclassical growth model. We pay particular attention to the consequences of imperfect competition for the explanation of fluctuations in aggregate economic activity. Market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474443
levels of unemployment. We consider a general equilibrium model where firms in one sector compete à la Cournot and a real … wage rigidity leads to unemployment. If firms consider only partial equilibrium effects when choosing quantities, the …
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, instead, favors unemployment-centric policy. One- and two-agent alternatives can show unanimous disapproval of inflation …
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In this paper we investigate the quantitative importance of search and matching fric- tions in Bulgarian labor markets. This is done by augmenting an otherwise standard real business cycle model a la Long and Plosser (1983) with both a two-sided costly search and fiscal policy. This introduces a...
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In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We … affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given minimum real wage. The bottom-line was that product market reforms … will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under most circumstances.Modeling a microfoundation of mark-ups, we have …
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levels of unemployment. We consider a general equilibrium model where firms in one sector compete a la Cournot and a real … wage rigidity leads to unemployment. If firms consider only partial equilibrium effects when choosing quantities, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320985
We depart from the assumption of perfect competition in the final goods sector, commonly used in cash-in-advance (CIA) models, providing extensive theoretical analysis of the general equilibrium of an economy with imperfect competition, endogenous production and fully flexible prices in the...
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, unemployment, and business cycles. Great economists such as Marx, Veblen, and Schumpeter have examined this problem, concluding … fluctuations in the share of profits create inflation, unemployment, and business cycles. This generalization has been verified by … profit share is high, moderate inflation and employment were generated, and when profit share is low, inflation, unemployment …
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unemployment benefits …
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