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cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …
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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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that the positive income shock is followed by a decrease in unemployment in all economic activity groups during the initial … periods except the unemployment in the Electricity sector and the Community Services sector. A positive money shock decreases … positive interbank interest rate shock increases the unemployment in all economic activities at the initial levels but derives …
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This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of this behavior empirically. We first show in a simple model that the perceived degree of past...
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labor demand and the wage bargaining process. The analysis of the interaction of shock spillovers and benefit system focuses …
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market shock is provoked in the home country or originates from abroad. We also point out how our results extend to two …
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Is there a role for debt beyond curing overaccumulation of capital? Does dynamic efficiency and the infeasibility of debt Ponzi schemes eliminate any Pareto-improving role for a government in a competitive economy with complete markets? Is there an optimal maturity structure of public debt?...
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market with wage rigidities may not recover from such a temporary labor supply shock: with a younger and less experienced … even after the shock. In a competitive market, in contrast, wage inequality and notably, the wage return to experience … becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
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How does international integration affect the welfare state? Does it call for a leaner or an expanded welfare state? International integration may affect the distortions caused by welfare state activities but also the risks motivating social insurance mechanisms. This paper addresses these...
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