The legal regulations require the minimum wage in Germany to be adjusted biennially which gives rise to a policy discontinuity. From the perspective of rational expectations models, such policy features render standard local approximation techniques infeasible. The paper presents a stylised...

"Polarisation" wird im Allgemeinen als ein Hervortreten von Gegensätzen verstanden. Bezogen auf Einkommen sind die Begriffe "Unter-, Mittel- und Oberschicht" gemeint. Bildet sich die Mittelschicht zurück, so besteht die resultierende Gesellschaft lediglich aus einer unteren bzw. einer oberen...

We discuss how cross-country unemployment insurance can be used to improve international risk sharing. We use a two-country business cycle model with incomplete financial markets and frictional labor markets where the unemployment insurance scheme operates across both countries. Cross-country...

We characterize optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian search-and-matching model where multiple-worker firms satisfy demand in the short run by adjusting hours per worker. Imperfect product market competition and search frictions reduce steady state hours per worker below the efficient...