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This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which … a beneficial impact on RPIX inflation over the last few years. We show that deviations of unemployment from the short …
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We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …
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cointegration framework to examine whether Chinese interest rates are driven by the Fed's policy. In a second step, we estimate a … exert relatively autonomous monetary policy. -- Chinese monetary policy ; monetary independence ; cointegration …
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This paper investigates the asymmetries in arbitrage trading with onshore and offshore renminbi spot rates, focusing on the time-varying driving factors behind the deviations of the two rates from their long-run equilibrium. Fundamentally, offshore and onshore renminbi rates represent the same...
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is fundamentally uncertain which covariates are relevant. Thus cointegration is often analyzed in partial systems … significant cointegration outcome using a bootstrapped rank test (Cavaliere, Rahbek, and Taylor, 2012) in the bivariate sub … application of a long-run Phillips curve (euro-area inflation and unemployment). The methods that include the covariates do not …
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I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …, unemployment reacts least when the budget is consolidated by increasing the rate of value-added tax. At peak, the highest increase …
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We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian … models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer … (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively affects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate …
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We introduce two types of effort into an otherwise standard labor search model to examine indeterminacy and sunspot equilibria. Variable labor effort gives rise to increasing returns to hours in production. This makes workers more valuable and contributes to self-fulfilling profit expectations,...
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