COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

affect inflation. Likewise, the interaction between central bank independence and coordination does not affect unemployment. …

prototypical framework is that voters discount their memories about unemployment and inflation at a constant rate. Yet starting …

high during 2016-2019, keeping inflation below the Reserve Bank's target band. Optimal monetary policy in 2016-2019 would …

Up to now there was a general conviction that increasing unemployment and inflation have a negative impact on the … the Schröder government. While the results for the former show the known pattern, neither unemployment nor inflation is … price stability in Germany. -- government popularity ; popularity function ; Germany ; unemployment ; inflation …

with simulations. Two examples based on European unemployment and inflation series are used to illustrate the virtue of the …