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income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …
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income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358858
In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important distinction to be made: While the rule-based component...
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This paper uses a nonlinear vector autoregression and a non-recursive identification strategy to show that an equal-sized uncertainty shock generates a larger contraction in real activity when growth is low (as in recessions) than when growth is high (as in expansions). An estimated New...
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This paper revisits the well-known VAR evidence on the real effects of uncertainty shocks by Bloom (Econometrica 2009(3): 623-685. doi: 10.3982/ECTA6248). We replicate the results in a narrow sense using Eviews. In a wide sense, we extend his study by working with a smooth transition-VAR...
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of biased expectations for wage bargaining, vacancy creation, worker flows and labor market policies. Importantly, we … relationship between workers' job separation expectations and wages. Instead, a wage setting process with less frequent wage … the difference between firms' and workers' biases matters for the bargained wage but not the size of biases. …
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of biased expectations for wage bargaining, vacancy creation, worker flows and labor market policies. Importantly, we … relationship between workers’ job separation expectations and wages. Instead, a wage setting process with less frequent wage … the difference between firms’ and workers’ biases matters for the bargained wage but not the size of biases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358405
We study the effects of monetary policy on aggregate consumption combining a heterogeneous agent model with measured expectations under different policy counterfactuals. We express the consumption of non-hand-to-mouth households as a function of expectations only and elicit all expectations...
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We employ a parsimonious nonlinear Interacted-VAR to examine whether the real effects of uncertainty shocks are greater when the economy is at the ZeroLower Bound. We find the contractionary effects of uncertainty shocks to be statistically larger when the ZLB is binding, with differences that...
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We investigate the role played by systematic monetary policy in tackling the real effects of uncertainty shocks in U.S. recessions and expansions. We model key indicators of the business cycle with a nonlinear VAR that allows for different dynamics in busts and booms. Uncertainty shocks are...
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