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counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important …
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This paper studies the unemployment accelerator, a mechanism where workers directly affect the firms' financial … conditions, and, in turn, firms' financial conditions feedback again to the real economy. The unemployment accelerator builds on … in labor and financial markets. We provide compelling micro-evidence of the unemployment accelerator: a 10% increase in a …
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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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It has been noted that the search and matching model cannot account for the observed unemployment fluctuations. Gertler …
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This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets … analysis provides evidence of long-run causality running from credit to GDP in countries with Islamic banks only. This is …
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A fixed exchange rate regime eliminates one degree of freedom in absorbing macroeconomic shocks. Therefore, there is a call for higher labor market flexibility in countries which are members of the monetary union or those which intend to join the monetary union. Focusing on the cross-country...
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We assess the contribution of “undue optimism” (Pigou) to short-run fluctuations. In our analysis, optimism pertains to total factor productivity which determines economic activity in the long run, but is not contemporaneously observed by market participants. In order to recover optimism...
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This paper estimates the effects of tax changes on the U.K. economy. Identification is achieved by isolating the ‘exogenous’ tax policy shocks in the post-war U.K. economy using a narrative strategy as in Romer and Romer (2010). The resulting tax changes are shown to be unforecastable on the...
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We document the empirical fact that asset prices in the consumption-goods and investment-goods sector behave almost identically in the US economy. In order to derive the cyclical behavior of the equity returns in these two sectors, we consider a standard two-sector real-business cycle model with...
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According to empirical studies, the life cycle of labor supply volatility exhibits a U-shaped pattern. This may lead to the conclusion that demographic change induces a drop in output volatility. We present an overlapping generations model that replicates the empirically observed pattern and...
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