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model in which firms face moderate degrees of price rigidities and no nominal rigidities in the wage setting process. Our …
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small businesses in the United States are one of the drivers explaining the unemployment dynamics during the Great Recession …
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The 2007-2009 recession is characterized by: a large drop in employment, an unprecedented decline in firm entry, and a slow recovery. Using confidential firm-level data, I show that financial constraints reduced employment growth in small relative to large firms by 4.8 to 10.5 percentage points....
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unemployment between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, and a decline in participation since the early 2000s. Using CPS micro … nonparticipants implies a lower unemployment rate, because marginal nonparticipants enter the labor force mostly through unemployment …
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utility. Given secular increases in job utility, work hours per capita can remain approximately constant over time even if the …
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unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers' and … payroll employment and the unemployment rate. Other influential indicators include the insured unemployment rate, consumers … perspective of the model, the unemployment rate declined a bit faster over the past two years than was consistent with the other …
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Many countries have large employment shares in micro and small firms that have limited access to formal financing and therefore rely on input credit. Such countries are mainly emerging and developing economies, whose business cycle dynamics are increasingly important for the global economy in...
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The object of this paper is to develop an operational early warning system (EWS) that can detect financial crises. To achieve this goal the paper analyzes and extends the early warning system developed by Kaminsky, Lizondo, and Reinhart (1998) and Kaminsky and Reinhart (1999) that is based on...
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In his seminal 1960 study on the dynamics of alternative exchange rate regimes, Robert Mundell proposed a theory of balance-of-payments crises in which speculators base their actions on the observed holdings of central bank foreign reserves. We examine the quantitative implications of this view...
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demand for broad money in the United Kingdom over 1878-1975. We update that model over 1976-1993, accounting for changed data … follow for parameter nonconstancy and predictive failure, causation between money and prices, monetary targeting …
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