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We study the effects of on-the-job skill accumulation on average hours worked by age and the volatility of hours over … volatility of hours over the life cycle depends on the value of the intertemporal elasticity of labor supply. When individuals … accumulate skills by on-the-job training, there are only weak effects on both the steady-state labor supply and its volatility …
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replicating the observed levels of volatility of unemployment and other key variables. I take variations in productivity growth … market are essential for understanding the volatility of unemployment. These models include simple equilibrium wage … stickiness, where the sticky wage is an equilibrium selection rule. A second model based on modern bargaining theory delivers a …
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In this paper we investigate the sources of the important shifts in the volatility of U.S. macroeconomic variables in … the postwar period. To this end, we propose the estimation of DSGE models allowing for time variation in the volatility of … investment specific technology shocks account for most of the sharp decline in volatility of the last two decades …
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Previous work by Dumas and Solnik (1993) has shown that a CAPM which incorporates foreign-exchange risk premia (a so-called 'international CAPM') is better capable empirically of explaining the structure of worldwide rates of return than does the classic CAPM. In the specification of that test,...
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Feedback from stock prices to cash flows occurs because information revealed by firms' stock prices influences the actions of competitors. We explore the implications of feedback within a noisy rational expectations setting with incumbent publicly traded firms and privately held new entrants. In...
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capita). Since cyclical income volatility is much larger in the developing world, these two critical facts raise fundamental …
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Shocks to equity options' ATM implied volatility (ATMIV) are followed by persistently lower short-term rates. Shocks to …
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This paper studies the implications of financial market imperfections represented by a countercyclical external finance premium and the gradual recognition of changes in the drift of technology growth for the design of an interest rate rule. Asset price movements induced by changes in trend...
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We formalize the Keynesian insight that aggregate demand driven by sentiments can generate output fluctuations under rational expectations. When production decisions must be made under imperfect information about demand, optimal decisions based on sentiments can generate stochastic...
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We develop an efficient and easy-to-use computational method for solving a wide class of general equilibrium heterogeneous agent models with aggregate shocks, together with an open source suite of codes that implement our algorithms in an easy-to-use toolbox. Our method extends standard...
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