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in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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. Even if monetary policy is found to react only mildly to inflation pre-Volcker, the substantial degrees of bounded …
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In a VAR model of the US, the response of the relative price of durables to a monetary contraction is either flat or mildly positive. It significantly falls only if narrowly defined as the ratio between new house and nondurables prices. These findings survive three identification strategies and...
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sluggish. Job creation and job destruction are negatively correlated. And the volatility of unemployment is much larger than in … the standard search and matching model. -- monetary persistence ; labor market ; hiring and firing costs …
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milder macroeconomic responses to a monetary policy shock estimated with our VAR in presence of high uncertainty. A version …
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We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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effective in State 2. Exogenously differentiating regimes by the level of inflation or the shock size does not reveal state … data determine two inflation regimes and find that they are characterized by high and low inflation volatility. We then … exhibit a more substantial and more persistent effect on downstream prices during periods of elevated inflation volatility …
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to be cut, workers stronger bargaining position requires higher unemployment in equilibrium. However, inflation is more … stronger bargaining position when they try to prevent a cut in money wages. If inflation is so low that some money wages have … stable when money wage rigidity binds, providing an incentive for monetary policy makers to choose a low target for inflation …
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found to help rationalizing the hump-shaped response of inflation, without resorting to the counterfactual assumption of …
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