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Government Expenditures and Unemployment : A DSGE Perspective

Mayer, Eric - 2016

In a New Keynesian DSGE model with labor market frictions and liquidity-constrained consumers aggregate unemployment is likely to increase due to a non-persistent government spending shock. Furthermore, the group of asset-holding households reacts very differently from the group of...

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Unemployment Insurance and the Business Cycle : Prolong Benefit Entitlements in Bad Times?

Moyen, Stephane - 2016

The aim of this paper is to study the optimal duration of unemployment benefit entitlement duration across the business cycle. We wonder if the entitlement duration should be prolonged in bad and shortened in good times. Because of consumption smoothing, such a countercyclical policy can be...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Girma, Sourafel - 2016

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

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