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This paper points out an empirical puzzle that arises when an RBC economy with a job matching function is used to model unemployment. The standard model can generate sufficiently large cyclical fluctuations in unemployment, or a sufficiently small response of unemployment to labor market...
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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 nonstationary in those models, while preserving the property of balanced...
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We construct and calibrate a general equilibrium business cycle model with unemployment and precautionary saving. We compute the cost of business cycles and locate the optimum in a set of simple cyclical fiscal policies. Our economy exhibits productivity shocks, giving firms an incentive to hire...
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We analyze a monetary model with flexible labor supply, cash-inadvance constraints and seigniorage-financed government deficits. If the intertemporal elasticity of substitution of labor is greater than one, there are two steady states, one determinate and the other indeterminate. If the...
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In this paper, we show that consumption externalities are a source of equilibrium indeterminacy in a growth model with …' consumption is constant along the equilibrium path, the equilibrium does not exhibit indeterminacy. In contrast, when that … marginal rate of substitution is not constant, the equilibrium may exhibit indeterminacy even if the elasticity of the labor …
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We implement a family of efficient proposals to share benefits generated in environments with externalities. These … proposals extend the Shapley value to games with externalities and are parametrized through the method by which the … externalities are averaged. We construct two slightly different mechanisms: one for environments with negative externalities and the …
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Regulations that constrain firms’ externalities in one dimension can distort incentives and worsen externalities in …
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We consider environments in which agents can cooperate on multiple issues and externalities are present both within and … across issues. We propose a way to extend (Shapley) values that have been put forward to deal with externalities within … issues to games where there are externalities within and across issues. We characterize our proposal through axioms that …
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We explore the implications for the optimal degree of fiscal decentralization when peoples preferences for goods and services, which classic treatments of fiscal federalism (Oates, 1972) place in the purview of local governments, exhibit specific egalitarianism (Tobin, 1970), or solidarity. We...
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Economic activities, both on the macro and micro level, often entail wide-spread externalities. This in turn leads to … deciding upon the distribution of the gains (costs) of cooperation in the presence of externalities. This method is shown to be …
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