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-run concept like the natural rate of unemployment. We examine what effect uncertainty has on the use of NAIRU in policy …
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Expanding on an approach suggested by Ashenfelter (1984), we extend the Phillips curve to an open economy and exploit panel data to estimate the textbook 'expectations augmented' Phillips curve with a market-based and observable measure of inflation expectations. We develop this measure using...
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examine U.S. time series and find that, as the model predicts, unemployment fluctuations are associated with both inflation …
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model labor market frictions and unemployment explicitly. The present paper describes some of the essential ingredients and …
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We study how trade linkages affect the conduct of monetary policy in a two-country model with heterogeneous firms, endogenous producer entry, and labor market frictions. We show that the ability of the model to replicate key empirical regularities following trade integration---synchronization of...
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rigidity makes the economy prone to involuntary unemployment during external crises. This paper presents a graphical analysis …
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This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in a monetary version of Farmer's (2009) model in … which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model …
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, the natural rate of unemployment is independent of monetary policy. Second, there is no long-run trade-off between the … deviation of unemployment from the natural rate and inflation. Both propositions have been challenged. The paper reviews the …
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policymakers at the time both had an overly optimistic view of the natural rate of unemployment and put a high priority on …-difference policy rule would have been highly effective at stabilizing inflation and unemployment in the presence of informational …
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the 'New Economy' permitted an easing of policy. We find that a Taylor rule based on inflation and unemployment does break … rule based on inflation and the deviation of unemployment from the NAIRU captures the Fed's behavior through the entire …
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