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This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead …
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revoked, providing novel evidence of hysteresis in wage setting from temporary labor policy. In the first year post repeal …
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Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...
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the scenarios of both certainty and uncertainty. We capture the direct interest rate-hysteresis on the investments and the … capital stock and, explicitly, of stochastic changes on the interest rate-investment hysteresis. Starting with hysteresis … hysteresis effects on a macroeconomic level. Based on our simple model we are able to obtain some conclusions about the efficacy …
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We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
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We examine wage-bargaining in a two-sector economy when employers and labor unions in each sector are not always aware of all general equilibrium feedback effects. We show analytically that if agents only consider labor demand effects, low real wages and low unemployment result. With an...
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Corporate success often resembles a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and status-seeking by workers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time.
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This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is potentially related to all other micro units, and where micro innovations are allowed to be cross sectionally dependent. Following Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is...
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