; equilibrium unemployment ; inflation target ; Phillips curve ; Lucas critique ; Germany …

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 …

employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of …). Accordingly, the efficient unemployment rate is the geometric average of the unemployment and vacancy rates: u* = √uv. We compute …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

This study documents how job seekers update perceived job-finding prospects by unemployment duration and by learning … about aggregate unemployment. We find that job seekers perceive an 18% decline in their job-finding probability for each … additional month of unemployment, but perceive a higher job-finding probability when the aggregate unemployment rate is …

, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …