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imperfect competition. In equilibrium, unemployment emerges as the result of the market power exercised by insiders at the firm … countercyclical unemployment rate, in a way qualitatively consistent with US data. …
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model labor market frictions and unemployment explicitly. This chapter describes some of the essential ingredients and …
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We analyze the merits and limitations of simple tractable New Keynesian models (RANK and TANK) in accounting for the aggregate predictions of Heterogenous Agent New Keynesian models (HANK). By means of comparison of a number of nested HANK models, we investigate the role played by (i)...
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We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications … for the unemployment-inflation trade-off and for the conduct of monetary policy. We proceed in two steps. We first leave … unemployment in the constrained efficient allocation. We then focus on the implications of alternative real wage setting mechanisms …
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We study the optimal monetary policy problem in a New Keynesian economy with a zero lower bound (ZLB) on the nominal interest rate, when the steady state natural rate (r*) becomes permanently negative. We show that the optimal policy aims to approach gradually a new steady state with positive...
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The present paper revisits a property embedded in most dynamic macroeconomic models: the stationarity of hours worked. First, I argue that, contrary to what is often believed, there are many reasons why hours could be non-stationary in those models, while preserving the property of balanced...
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