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More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...
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-Saxon countries (the US and the UK), two Continental European countries (France and Germany) and two Scandinavian countries (Norway … probabilities observed in US, with mixed success in Europe. In contrast, matching shocks and job destruction shocks play a larger … role in most European countries relative to the US …
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This paper develops a rational expectations model with multiple equilibrium unemployment rates where the price of capital may be unbounded above. I argue that this property is an important feature of any rational-agent explanation of a financial crisis, since for the expansion phase of the...
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