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Sustainability, Debt Management, and Public Debt Policy in Japan

Doi, Takero - 2006

authority of Japan because it has accumulated the debt outstanding much more than other countries …The purpose of this paper is to analyze sustainability issues of Japan's fiscal policy and then to discuss the debt …

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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union

Gali, Jordi - 2005

We lay out a tractable model for fiscal and monetary policy analysis in a currency union, and analyze its implications for the optimal design of such policies. Monetary policy is conducted by a common central bank, which sets the interest rate for the union as a whole. Fiscal policy is...

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Joined at the Hip : Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity-Dependent World

Calvo, Guillermo; Velasco, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the effects of monetary and fiscal policies when both money and government bonds provide liquidity services … the supply of bonds. Those movements in government bond prices affect available liquidity, and therefore aggregate demand … interest rate on money. We conclude that in a liquidity-dependent world, fiscal and monetary policies are joined at the hip …

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Fiscal Reform and Government Debt in Japan : A Neoclassical Perspective

Hansen, Gary - 2013

Past government spending in Japan is currently imposing a significant fiscal burden that is reflected in a net debt to …

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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2006

Reichlin, Lucrezia (contributor); … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2008

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Unions in a Frictional Labor Market

Krusell, Per - 2012

A labor market with search and matching frictions, where wage setting is controlled by a monopoly union that follows a norm of wage solidarity, is found vulnerable to substantial distortions associated with holdup. With full commitment to future wages, the union achieves efficient hiring in the...

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Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes : The Role of Choice and Chance

Krusell, Per - 2009

Commonly used frictional models of the labor market imply that changes in frictions have large effects on steady state employment and unemployment. We use a model that features both frictions and an operative labor supply margin to examine the robustness of this feature to the inclusion of a...

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Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor, Incomplete Markets, and Labor Market Frictions

Krusell, Per - 2008

This paper analyzes a model that features frictions, an operative labor supply margin, and incomplete markets. We first provide analytic solutions to a benchmark model that includes indivisible labor and incomplete markets in the absence of trading frictions. We show that the steady state levels...

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Rent Rigidity, Asymmetric Information, and Volatility Bounds in Labor Markets

Bruegemann, Bjoern - 2007

Recent findings have revived interest in the link between real wage rigidity and employment fluctuations, in the context of frictional labor markets. The standard search and matching model fails to generate substantial labor market fluctuations if wages are set by Nash bargaining, while it can...

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Labor-Market Frictions and Employment Fluctuations

Hall, Robert E. - 1998

The labor market occupies center stage in modern theories of fluctuations. The most important phenomenon to explain and understand in a recession is the sharp decline in employment and jump in unemployment. This chapter for the Handbook of Macroeconomics considers explanations based on frictions...

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