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Labor Market Dynamics under Long Term Wage Contracting

Rudanko, Leena - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

This paper introduces risk averse workers into a search and matching model and considers the quantitative performance … search and matching models. … in unemployment and vacancies but also wages, is the drop in consumption for the unemployed. In addition, explaining the …

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Business Cycles, Wage Setting, and Asymmetric Information

Shimer, Robert - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

This paper explores wage-setting in the presence of asymmetric information. Firms know their own productivity, while workers only know the distribution of productivity in the economy. Although there is unemployment in equilibrium, the labor market is competitive in the sense of Moen (1997):...

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A dynamic matching model with downward wage rigidity

Jansen, Marcel; Costain, James - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

labor market models have a hard time generating the degree of cyclical volatility in unemployment and vacancies that is … studies a dynamic matching model with downward wage rigidity. Like Mortensen and Pissarides (2001) and Jansen (2001), we … surplus of jobs exhibits substantially more cyclical volatility than in standard matching models with transferable utility …

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Indivisible Labor and Its Supply Elasticity: Do Taxes Explain European Employment?

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

We first scrutinize and challenge Prescott's (2002, 2004) quantitative analysis of the role of differences in taxes in explaining cross-country differences in labor market outcomes, and then defend an alternative model that assigns an important role to cross-country differences in social...

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The US-European Unemployment Divide Revisited: The Role of Growth and Convergence

Pissarides, Christopher A - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

In this paper I argue that most comparisons of the unemployment dynamics in the United States and Europe since the war incorrectly neglect the role of technological catch-up in Europe up to the late 1960s and the contribution of the different growth experiences in the two continents. Growth has...

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Welfare Costs, Long Run Consumption Risk, and a Production Economy.

Croce, Mariano M. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

The main goal of this paper is to measure the welfare costs of business cycles in a production economy in which the representative agent has low risk aversion and - at the same time - the equity premium and the co-movements of aggregate quantities and market returns are comparable to what...

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Business Cycles under Generalized Disappointment Aversion

Campanale, Claudio; Castro, Rui; Clementi, Gian Luca - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Standard business cycle models with state-additive preferences, while broadly consistent with the behavior of real macroeconomic aggregates, are unable to generate asymmetries between expansions and recessions, and are also inconsistent with the behavior of asset prices. In this paper we exploit...

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Barbados; 2010 Article IV Consultation-Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

The short-term recovery of the Barbados economy will critically depend on the rebound of demand for its services in its traditional markets. As a small tourist-dependent economy with a fixed exchange rate and volatile capital inflows, Barbados could shore up its external sector through fiscal...

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Germany; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Selected Issues paper attempts to analyze the end-point problem and improve the quality of potential GDP estimates for Germany. It projects that Germanyâ€™s potential GDP growth will slow over the coming decade, mainly because of declining labor input. The paper focuses on a long-term...

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Greece; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the growth prospects of the Greek economy. It is estimated that exceptional factors boosted growth by 1 percentage point per year in recent years and, under current trends and policies, growth is likely to drop to about 3 percent by the end of the decade. The...

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