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despite substantial volatility of the unemployment rate, and in particular the common tendency of PC inflation equations to … five years but rather in the mid-1970s, when the predicted negative relation between inflation and unemployment turned out … to be utterly wrong. Instead inflation exhibited a strong positive correlation with unemployment. Failure bred success …
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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 …
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, and price and wage rigidities. Regulation affects producer entry costs, employment protection, and unemployment benefits …
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recovered but unemployment lingered). This paper presents a model that captures these three facts. The key elements of the model …
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shortening the duration of the crisis and a binding zero bound. Inflation should be front loaded. Fiscal-policy multipliers can …
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We propose an overlapping generations New Keynesian model in which a permanent (or very persistent) slump is possible without any self-correcting force to full employment. The trigger for the slump is a deleveraging shock, which creates an oversupply of savings. Other forces that work in the...
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interest on reserves. While their effects on output and inflation are small, these policies require major adjustments in the …
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for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.<br><br>We proceed in two steps. We first … setting by firms. We derive the relation between inflation and unemployment and discuss how it is influenced by the presence … of labor market frictions and real wage rigidities. We show the nature of the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment …
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We describe some of the main features of the recent vintage macroeconomic models used for monetary policy evaluation. We point to some of the key differences with respect to the earlier generation of macro models, and highlight the insights for policy that these new frameworks have to offer. Our...
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condition links the price of equity (the value of products) with marginal cost and markups, and hence with inflation dynamics …
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