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? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …
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productivity but not necessarily on its long run growth rate. I therefore predict that the UK will eventually return to the growth …The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data …, and using a two-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP per hour in the market sector to be 2.61% p …
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The austerity programme of the coalition government knocked at least one percent per year off growth in the first two …
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John Van Reenen examines the 'unbalancing' of Britain's economy away from manufacturing since 1979.
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John Van Reenen examines the 'unbalancing' of Britain's economy away from manufacturing since 1979.
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A large literature has documented statistically significant effects of monetary policy on economic activity. The central explanation for how monetary policy transmits to the real economy relies critically on nominal rigidities, which form the basis of the New Keynesian (NK) framework. This paper...
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We estimate the impulse response of key US macro series to the monetary policy shocks identified by Romer and Romer (2004), allowing the response to depend flexibly on the state of the business cycle. We find strong evidence that the effects of monetary policy on real and nominal variables are...
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A vast empirical literature has documented delayed and persistent effects of monetary policy shocks on output. We show that this finding results from the aggregation of output impulse responses that differ sharply depending on the timing of the shock: when the monetary policy shock takes place...
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Systematic differences in the timing of wage setting decisions among industrialized countries provide an ideal framework to study the importance of wage rigidity in the transmission of monetary policy. The Japanese Shunto presents the most well-known case of bunching in wage setting decisions:...
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I analyze optimal monetary policy in an economy with search and matching frictions in the labor market and staggered nominal wage and price contracts. In this framework, as opposed to the standard New Keynesian model, preset nominal wages need not have any effect on existing employment...
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