Dufourt, Frédéric; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We extend the finance-constrained economy proposed by Woodford (1986) to incorporate imperfectly insured unemployment, by introducing unions and unemployment benefits financed by labour taxation. We show that this simple extension of the Woodford model changes drastically its stability...