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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles

Burda, Michael C; Weder, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance … volatility and persistence of vacancies and unemployment. …

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The Output Gap, the Labor Wedge, and the Dynamic Behavior of Hours

Sala, Luca; Söderström, Ulf; Trigari, Antonella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We use a standard quantitative business cycle model with nominal price and wage rigidities to estimate two measures of economic inefficiency in recent U.S. data: the output gap---the gap between the actual and efficient levels of output---and the labor wedge---the wedge between households'...

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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession: Cross-Country Evidence

Sala, Luca; Söderström, Ulf; Trigari, Antonella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We use an estimated monetary business cycle model with search and matching frictions in the labor market and nominal … movements in GDP, unemployment, vacancies, and wages in the period from 2007 until 2011. We show that contractionary financial … factors and reduced efficiency in labor market matching were largely responsible for the experience in the U.S. Financial …

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Measuring unemployment composition over the cycle

Barbarino, Alessandro; Pavan, Ronni - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

This paper proposes a strategy to measure, in a unified setting, how the job finding probability and the job separation probability conditional on observable and unobservable individual characteristics varies over the business cycle. Recent papers by Shimer and Hall point out how new...

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Organizational capital and employment fluctuations

Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

margin of labor adjustment, in combination with adjustment costs along the extensive margin (search frictions, firing costs …

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The Countercyclical Capital Buffer of Basel III: A Critical Assessment

Repullo, Rafael; Saurina, Jesús - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We provide a critical assessment of the countercyclical capital buffer in the new regulatory framework known as Basel III, which is based on the deviation of the credit-to-GDP ratio with respect to its trend. We argue that a mechanical application of the buffer would tend to reduce capital...

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Credit constraints, firms' precautionary investment and the business cycle

Orive, Ander Pérez - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

This paper studies the macroeconomic implications of firms' investment composition choices in the presence of credit constraints. Following a negative and persistent aggregate productivity shock, firms shift into short-term investments because they produce more pledgeable output and because they...

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Do institutions and culture matter for business cycles?

Altug, Sumru; Canova, Fabio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

We examine the relationship between institutions, culture and cyclical fluctuations for a sample of 45 European, Middle Eastern and North African countries. Better governance is associated with shorter and less severe contractions and milder expansions. Certain cultural traits, such as lack of...

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Safety Traps

Benhima, Kenza; Massenot, Baptiste - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Fear of risk provides a rationale for protracted economic downturns. We develop a real business cycle model where investors with decreasing relative risk aversion choose between a risky and a safe technology that exhibit decreasing returns. Because of a feedback effect from the interest rate to...

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Do Institutions and Culture Matter for Business Cycles?

Altug, Sumru G.; Canova, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We examine the relationship between macroeconomic, institutional, and cultural indicators and cyclical fluctuations for European, Middle Eastern and North African Mediterranean countries. Mediterranean cycles are different from EU cycles: the duration of expansions is shorter; the amplitude and...

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