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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation
Graham, Liam - 2013
The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...
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Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market : A New Perspective
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
In this paper we propose a novel way to model the labor market in the context of a New-Keynesian general equilibrium model, incorporating labor market frictions in the form of hiring and firing costs. We show that such a model is able to replicate many important stylized facts of the business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316264
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Cross-Country Income Differences and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World
Irmen, Andreas - 2012
This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...
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Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2021
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
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Factor Income Distribution and Endogenous Economic Growth - When Piketty Meets Romer
Irmen, Andreas - 2017
We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …
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New Keynesian dynamics in a low interest rate environment
Braun, R. Anton; Körber, Lena Mareen - 2011
Recent research has found that the dynamic properties of the New Keynesian model can be very different when the nominal interest rate is zero. Improvements in technology and reductions in the labor tax rate lower economic activity, and the size of the government purchase output multiplier can be...
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A Theory of Wage Adjustment Under Loss Aversion
Ahrens, Steffen - 2015
We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workers … price. Firms adjust wages flexibly in response to variations in labor demand. The resulting theory of wage adjustment is …
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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …
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An anatomy of the Phillips curve
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
The paper examines how the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff depends on the degree to which wage-price decisions are backward- versus forward-looking. When economic agents, facing time-contingent, staggered nominal contracts, have a positive rate of time preference, the current wage and...
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Time Variation in U.S. Wage Dynamics
Hofmann, Boris - 2011
This paper explores time variation in the dynamic effects of technology shocks on U.S. output, prices, interest rates as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time variation in U.S. wage dynamics that can be linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the...
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