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Monetary persistence, imperfect competition, and staggering complementarities
Merkl, Christian (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper explores the influence of wage and price staggering on monetary persistence. We show that, for plausible parameter values, wage and price staggering are complementary in generating monetary persistence. We do so by proposing the new measure of "quantitative inertia," after discussing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557342
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Deriving the new quantity equation : an approach for a closed and an open economy
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2014
This theoretical contribution shows a simple way in which the quantity equation can be derived as a long-term equilibrium solution for the case of a closed economy and an open economy, respectively. It is shown first for the case of a closed economy which parameters stand behind "velocity" and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398774
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Amerisclerosis? : the puzzle of rising US unemployment persistence
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - 2013
The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207304
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Sequential bargaining in a new-Keynesian model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage negotiation
De Walque, Gregory; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri; … - 2009
We consider a model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage bargaining where hours worked are negotiated every period. The workers' bargaining power in the hours negotiation affects both unemployment volatility and inflation persistence. The closer to zero this parameter, (i) the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824877
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The role of real wage rigidity and labor market frictions for unemployment and inflation dynamics
Christoffel, Kai (contributor); Linzert, Tobias (contributor) - 2005
In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions affect the transmission process of monetary policy. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003227218
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Optimal fiscal policy with labor selection
Chugh, Sanjay K.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2018
This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872840
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The dynamics of entrepreneurship : hysteresis, business cycles and government policy
Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A.; Parker, Simon C. - 2009
US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the … article discusses implications of the findings for the design of entrepreneurship policies. -- Hysteresis ; unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830249
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Unemployment dynamics and the cost of business cycles
Hairault, Jean-Olivier (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a reduced-form model of the labor market, we show that job finding rate fluctuations generate intrinsically a non-linear effect on unemployment: positive shocks reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778482
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Expected inflation, sunspots equilibria and persistent unemployment fluctuations
Dufourt, Frédéric; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - 2009
We propose and estimate a model where unemployment fluctuations result from self-fulfilling changes in expected inflation (sunspot shocks) affecting nominal wage bargaining. Since the estimated parameters fall near the locus of Hopf bifurcations, country-specific expected inflation shocks can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879337
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Extraordinary labor market developments and the 2022-23 disinflation
Davis, Steven J. - 2024
Two extraordinary U.S. labor market developments facilitated the sharp disinflation in 2022-23 without raising the unemployment rate. First, pandemic-driven infection worries and social distancing intentions caused a sizable drag on labor force participation that began to reverse in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550371