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area GDP. Since the EERP comprised both revenue and expenditurebased fiscal stimulus measures, the total multiplier is …
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paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a … reasonable elasticity of steady state unemployment with respect to changes in benefits. The calibration of the model implies low …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with …
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We show that financial variables contribute to the forecast of GDP growth during the Great Recession, providing … additional insights on both first and higher moments of the GDP growth distribution. If a recession is due to an unforeseen shock … (such as the Covid-19 recession), financial variables serve policymakers in providing timely warnings about the severity of …
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-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation …
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This paper relates the size of the cyclical inflation differentials, currently observed for euro area countries, to the differences in labor market institutions across the same set of countries. It does that by using a DSGE model for a currency area with sticky prices and labor market frictions....
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, this allows the model to generate fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose magnitudes are lose …
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We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people ….e., unemployment is ‘involuntary'). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple New Keynesian framework with no … capital and use the resulting model to discuss the concept of the ‘non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment'. We then …
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In recent years, government revenues in many EU countries experienced significant and erratic changes, which, a priori, could not be fully explained by macroeconomic developments or by discretionary fiscal policy measures. We investigate this issue by estimating “unexplained” changes in tax...
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combination of expanded unemployment insurance benefits and stimulus payments should be sufficient to allow a swift recovery in … households to past consumption stimulus packages. The extension allows us to account for two novel features of the coronavirus … consumer spending to its pre-crisis levels. If the lockdown lasts longer, an extension of enhanced unemployment benefits will …
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