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. Using matched employer-employee dataset, I adopted the estimation strategy proposed by Guiso et al. (2005) to evaluate wage … Portuguese datasets. I found that firms do insure workers against product market uncertainties, but the magnitude of the wage … response differs depending on the nature of the shock. Broadly speaking, the wage response to permanent shocks is twice as high …
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, endogenous productivity and downward wage rigidity (DWR) which challenges these results. The model features a non-vertical long …
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In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business … affect the transmission process of monetary policy. The model allows real wage rigidities to interact with adjustments in … an interest rate innovation depends on the degree of wage rigidity. Generally, more rigid wages translate into more …
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Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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This paper provides evidence on the role of non-base wage components as a channel for firms to adjust labour costs in …–2013. We find that firms subject to nominal wage rigidities, which prevent them from adjusting base wages, are more likely to … cut non-base wage components in order to adjust labour costs when needed. Firms thus use non-base wage components as a …
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The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
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I add a moral hazard problem between banks and depositors as in Gertler and Karadi (2009) to a DSGE model with a costly state verification problem between entrepreneurs and banks as in Bernanke et al. (1999) (BGG). This modification amplifies the response of the external finance premium and the...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the role played by loan supply shocks over the business cycle in the Euro Area, the United Kingdom and the United States from 1980 to 2010 by applying a time-varying parameters VAR model with stochastic volatility and identifying these shocks with sign...
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In Denmark official quarterly national accounts are only available for the period since 1977. The paper constructs a set of summary non-seasonally adjusted quarterly national accounts for Denmark for 1948-2010 in current and constant prices as well as a set of other key quarterly macroeconomic...
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This paper evaluates whether macroeconomic uncertainty changes the impact of oil shocks on the oil price. Using a structural threshold VAR model, we endogenously identify different regimes of uncertainty in which we estimate the effects of oil demand and supply shocks. The results show that...
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