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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
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Heterogeneity in Wage Setting Behavior in a New-Keynesian Model
Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Grajales, Anderson; Uras, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian DSGE model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent study, Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2011) develop a DSGE model, in which firms follow four different types of price setting schemes: sticky prices, sticky information, rule of...
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Firm Leverage and Unemployment during the Great Recession
Giroud, Xavier; Mueller, Holger M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
significantly larger decline in employment in response to household demand shocks than firms that freed up debt capacity (“low … establishments belonging to high-leverage firms exhibit a significantly larger decline in employment in response to household demand … shocks. Thus, firms’ balance sheets also matter for aggregate employment. …
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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Burda, Michael C; Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …
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New Business Start-ups and the Business Cycle
Coles, Melvyn G; Kelishomi, Ali Moghaddasi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper considers new business start-up activity within a stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment. The resulting job creation process is both natural and tractable, and generates equilibrium unemployment and vacancy dynamics which match the volatility and persistence observed in the...
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Fiscal Multipliers Over the Business Cycle
Michaillat, Pascal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper develops a theory characterizing the effects of fiscal policy on unemployment over the business cycle. The theory is based on a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal policy in the form of government spending on public-sector jobs reduces...
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Skill-Biased Technological Change and the Business Cycle
Balleer, Almut; van Rens, Thijs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
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Animal Spirits, Persistent Unemployment and the Belief Function
Farmer, Roger E A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in a monetary version of Farmer’s (2009) model in which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model; the optimizing IS curve and the policy rule. It...
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Exploitability as a Specification Test of the Phillips Curve
Minford, Patrick; Peel, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Nominal price and wage rigidity renders monetary policy effective over output. However, this effectiveness extends, under widely used overlapping-wage and Calvo-contract Phillips Curves, to planned monetary policy (‘exploitability’) and not merely to policy surprises. We argue that within...
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Anticipated Growth and Business Cycles in Matching Models
Den Haan, Wouter; Kaltenbrunner, Georg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
matching friction has the opposite effect leaving labour supply roughly unaffected. Employment increases because the matching …
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