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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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This paper examines the implications for monetary policy of sticky prices in both final and intermediate goods in a New Keynesian model. Both optimal policy under commitment and discretionary policy, which is the minimization of a simple loss function, are studied. Consumer utility losses under...
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-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Two conflicting motives drive policy. In the static version of the model, uncertainty provides …
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change that renders the natural rates of interest and unemployment uncertain. Using a forward-looking quarterly model of the … rules do not require knowledge of the natural rates of interest or unemployment for setting policy and are consequently …
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In this paper, we consider whether long-term inflation expectations have become better anchored in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. We do so using survey-based measures as well as financial market-based measures of long-term inflation expectations, where we construct the market-based measures from...
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Appointing Rogoff's (1985) conservative central banker improves welfare if the economy is subject to large contractionary shocks and the policy rate occasionally falls to the zero lower bound (ZLB). In an economy with occasionally binding ZLB constraints, the anticipation of future ZLB episodes...
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This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a …, technical change, and a productivity slowdown. We derive the consequences for the skilled-to unskilled wage gap, unemployment …
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despite declines in unemployment rates. For the United States, these seemingly contradictory developments have been reconciled … natural unemployment rate (NAIRU), and (3) improved credibility of monetary policy. Here we ask whether comparable factors … between inflation, the unemployment rate, and structural factors using an extended Phillips curve model with quarterly data …
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I examine whether the cyclical behavior of unemployment has changed over the post WWII period. Specifically, I test … whether cyclical movements in unemployment have become more persistent. Finding that they have, indeed, become more persistent … payroll employment as well as unemployment and that increased persistence appears to be widespread across industries. At the …
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