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Tasci, Murat; Pescatori, Andrea - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper shows that labor market search frictions do not explain fluctuations in the labor wedge per se. However, the introduction of extensive and intensive margin clarifies that measuring the MRS in terms of total hours artificially introduces procyclicality in the MRS. When the MRS is...

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Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run; The Role of Macroeconomic Volatility

Surico, Paolo; Ricci, Luca Antonio; Benigno, Pierpaolo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

We propose a theory of low-frequency movements in unemployment based on asymmetric real wage rigidities. The theory … generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with (i) a fall in long-run productivity growth and (ii) a rise …-run unemployment over the 1980s and its rise during the late 2000s. …

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Can Higher Reserves Help Reduce Exchange Rate Volatility?

Nowak, M.; Hviding, Ketil; Ricci, Luca Antonio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper studies the role of an increase in foreign exchange reserves in reducing currency volatility for emerging market countries. The study employs a panel of 28 countries over the period 1986-2002. Several control variables are introduced in the regressions to account for other factors...

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