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such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
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such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317906
the ten countries, the United Kingdom has conducted inflation targeting most in line with the theory of rational …
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Economists have long emphasized the importance of expectations in determining macroeconomic outcomes Yet there has been almost no recent effort to model actual empirical expectations data; instead macroeconomists usually simply assume expectations are rational This paper shows that while...
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explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …
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Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that US firms face in these markets is strongly driven by the prices of Chinese imports, and so is their pricing decision. This paper quantifies the effect of the...
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targeting affect unemployment, economic growth and the output gap. The results show that inflation targeting causes no harm to … employment in developing and emerging countries. On the contrary, it might reduce average unemployment and narrow the output gap …
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these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth," describing the … permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …
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Monetary policy in CEE is an important determinant in the wage bargaining process, because trade unions have to predict inflation as one component of future real wages. This paper scrutinizes whether countries in CEE that officially announce an inflation target are tempted to act...
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sticky prices and equilibrium search unemployment that features a shock to the matching efficiency (or mismatch shock). We … find that this shock is almost irrelevant for unemployment fluctuations in normal times. However, it plays a somewhat … larger role during the Great Recession when it contributes to raise the actual unemployment rate by 1.25 percentage points …
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