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Behavioral economics and macroeconomic models
Driscoll, John C.; Holden, Steinar - 2014 - This version: 7 April 2014
Over the past 20 years, macroeconomists have incorporated more and more results from behavioral economics into their models. We argue that doing so has helped fixed deficiencies with standard approaches to modeling the economy-for example, the counterfactual absence of inertia in the standard...
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Have macroeconomic models lost their connection with economic reality?
Veen, Tom van - 2020
Macroeconomic theory has developed into increasingly sophisticated mathematical models. In the words of Mankiw … the development of macroeconomic theory over the past 40 years. The focus is on the main lines of thinking and the story … changes in macroeconomic theory and that the current debates after the GFC will be the start of a more plural approach to …
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Banking regulation and prompt corrective action
Freixas, Xavier (contributor); Parigi, Bruno (contributor) - 2007
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Finding the cost of control
Kessler, Judd B.; Leider, Stephen - 2013
A large and growing literature has demonstrated that explicit incentives, such as enforceable contracts, can lead agents to withhold effort. We investigate when this behavioral result arises. In an extensive laboratory experiment, we find that imposing control through an enforceable contract is...
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Cyclical unemployment, structural unemployment
Diamond, Peter A. - 2013
Whenever unemployment stays high for an extended period, it is common to see analyses, statements, and rebuttals about the extent to which the high unemployment is structural, not cyclical. This essay views the Beveridge Curve pattern of unemployment and vacancy rates and the related matching...
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Transatlantic monetary and fiscal policy interaction
Aarle, Bas van; Garretsen, Harry; Huart, Florence - 2003
This paper studies the design, effects and interactions of monetary and fiscal policies in the euro-area and between the euro-area and the non euro-area. To do so, a stylized three-country model of monetary and fiscal policy rules is constructed. It is analyzed how monetary and fiscal rules...
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Incentives to work and performance in the public sector
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2015
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with three distinct social groups, capitalists, private workers and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for...
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Fair wages and human capital accumulation in a global economy
Kreickemeier, Udo - 2004
This paper analyzes trade in an asymmetric 2×2×2 world, where the two countries, labelled America and Europe, differ in their attitudes towards wage inequality. In both America and Europe, fair wage considerations compress differentials between the wages for skilled and unskilled workers,...
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Estimated general equilibrium models for the evaluation of monetary policy in the US and Europe
Leith, Campbell B.; Malley, James R. - 2002
A persistent criticism of general equilibrium models of monetary policy which incorporate nominal inertia in the form of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) is that they fail to capture the extent of inflation inertia in the data. In this paper we derive a general equilibrium model based on...
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Non-linearities in the relation between the exchange rate and its fundamentals
Altavilla, Carlo (contributor); De Grauwe, Paul (contributor) - 2005
This paper investigates the relationship between the euro-dollar exchange rate and its underlying fundamentals. First, we develop a simple theoretical model in which chartists and fundamentalists interact. This model predicts the existence of different regimes, and thus nonlinearities in the...
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