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economic outcomes. The question is whether higher transparency comes at some cost, i.e. higher unemployment or higher … unemployment variability. Firstly, the article shows in a theoretical model that opaqueness regarding the central bank …’s preferences does not necessarily lead to lower unemployment. Secondly, the paper analyses the main theoretical results of other …
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; equilibrium unemployment ; inflation target ; Phillips curve ; Lucas critique ; Germany …
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Uncertainty shocks are found to adversely affect labor market outcomes. Most studies attribute labor adjustments costs for the propagation of macroeconomic uncertainty to the labor market. Given that large establishments in Germany face higher labor adjustments cost, they should be affected more...
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This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...
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In this paper, I argue that there is an inefficiently high number of job creators in a model with labour market imperfections and an endogenous decision to become a job creator. I therefore augment the standard labour matching model developed by Mortensen and Pissarides by an endogenous job...
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The increase in central bank transparency was one of the main developments in central banking in the last two decades. This leads to the question of which effect central bank transparency has on the volatility of exchange rates. According to theoretical considerations, more information could...
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