Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future … shocks do not systematically lead to more persistent unemployment than monetary policy shocks, so these cannot explain the … rising persistence of unemployment. Second, monetary and fiscal policies can account for only part of the evolving …