The global crisis that began in 2008 reheated the debate on market deregulation as a tool to spur economic performance. This paper addresses the consequences of increased flexibility in goods and labor markets for the conduct of monetary policy in a monetary union. We model a two-country...

This paper studies how labor market frictions affect the consequences of trade integration in a two-country, stochastic, general equilibrium model of trade and macroeconomic dynamics with heterogeneous firms, endogenous producer entry, and frictional labor markets. The model successfully...