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Causal effects of monetary shocks: semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score
Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2008
Macroeconomists have long been concerned with the causal effects of monetary policy. When the identification of causal effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes and policy changes. This paper develops a...
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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 R. - 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/10010277123
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Is the Deficit under Control?
Bonin, Holger; Abio, Gemma; Berenguer, Eduardo; Gil, Joan; … - 2001
According to the 2001 Spanish budgetary previsions, the government deficit is about to disappear. We analyse this matter within a generational accounting framework. Accounting for the recent expansive phase of the economic cycle, we find that current fiscal policy is also intertemporally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262513
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European Integration and Employment: A New Role for Active Fiscal Policies?
Gatti, Donatella - 2002
This paper theoretically investigates the impact of European integration on employment by developing a new-keynesian model where fiscal policy effectively reduces firms? market power. Stronger product market competition is shown to reduce the marginal ability of governments to improve employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262742
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Innocent bystanders? Monetary policy and inequality in the US
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kueng, Lorenz; … - 2012
We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287628
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The role of real wage rigidity and labor market frictions for unemployment and inflation dynamics
Christoffel, Kai; Linzert, Tobias - 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/10010267287
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Hyperbolic discounting and the Phillips curve
Graham, Liam; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
Using a standard dynamic general equilibrium model, we show that the interaction of staggered nominal contracts with hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables.
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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no … interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to … staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the price adjustments to each successive change in the money supply are never …
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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes; Marklein, Felix - 2008
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for …, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as fungible. When a label is attached to a part of their budget, subjects …
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On the curvature of the reporting function from objective reality to subjective feelings
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2008
I suggest the idea of a reporting function, r(.), from reality to feelings. The 'happiness' literature claims we have demonstrated diminishing marginal utility of income. I show not, and that knowing r(.)'s curvature is crucial. A quasi-experiment on heights is studied.
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