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In this paper, we explore the role of labor markets for monetary policy in the euro area in a New Keynesian model in which labor markets are characterized by search and matching frictions. We first investigate to which extent a more flexible labor market would alter the business cycle behaviour...
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Will EMU accelerate or retard structural reform in labour and product markets? The theoretical literature is ambiguous … in five specific areas of labour and product market policies. Based on pooled cross-country/time series Probit …
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We present a quarterly narrative database of important labour market reforms in selected euro area economies in between …
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We propose a Bayesian VAR model with stochastic volatility and time varying skewness to estimate the degree of labour … risks have been contained by the resilient performance of the labour market in both areas. The degree of labour at risk is …
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We explore the dynamic effects of news about a future technology improvement which turns out ex post to be overoptimistic. We find that it is difficult to generate a boom-bust cycle (a period in which stock prices, consumption, investment and employment all rise and then crash) in response to...
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affected by a credit constraint and, in turn, to adjust their labour input downwards than pre-crisis clients of more healthy …
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adjustments. We formalise this notion by incorporating labour market rigidities into an “escape clause” model of currency crises … or labour markets flexible. …
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This paper analyses information from survey data collected in the framework of the Eurosystem's Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) on patterns of firm-level adjustment to shocks. We document that the relative intensity and the character of price vs. cost and wage vs. employment adjustments in response...
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information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross …
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influence the adjustment of both quantities and prices in the labour market …
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