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Temporary shocks and unavoidable transitions to a high-unemployment regime

Den Haan, Wouter J. - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment … European unemployment rates observed during the seventies. The explanation given is that even if the unemployment rate would … decrease it can only do so gradually because of matching frictions which in turn implies that the tax burden remains high and …

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Relevant economic issues concerning the optimal rate of inflation

Rodriguez-Palenzuela, Diego; Camba-Mendez, Gonzalo; … - 2003

This paper reviews the key economic issues concerning the welfare costs of inflation and deflation, with a view to shedding light on the desirable properties of the inflation process. Our review of the evidence on the overall costs of inflation and deflation indicates that such costs could be...

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Indeterminacy and search theory

Giammarioli, Nicola - 2003

reßected by an increasing returns to scale matching function, which may imply an indeterminate equilibrium. Hence, the model is … capable to generate business ßuctuations, driven by self-fulÞlling belief, characterised by unemployment persistence. A …

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Equilibrium unemployment, job flows and inflation dynamics

Trigari, Antonella - 2004

general equilibrium model that integrates a theory of equilibrium unemployment into a monetary model with nominal price …

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Wealth mobility and dynamics over entire individual working life cycles

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2011

We study taxable wealth in unique Swedish administrative data, annually following a large sample of households over a period of almost 40 years. The main data limitation is non-observability of wealth for those below the tax exemption level. This implies that much of the focus of the paper is on...

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The response of labour taxation to changes in government debt

Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine; … - 2011

This paper investigates the relationship between government debt and labour taxation for a panel of 18 EU countries over the period 1979-2008. The econometric estimates point to a statistically significant and economically relevant positive response of labour taxation to changes in the general...

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Unemployment, hysteresis and transition

León-Ledesma, Miguel; McAdam, Peter - 2003

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods … presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is potentially a narrow definition, we also take into account the existence … of structural breaks and non-linear dynamics in unemployment. Finally, we examine whether CEECsu0092 unemployment …

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Information acquisition and decision making in committees

Gerling, Kerstin; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kiel, Alexandra; … - 2003

This is a survey on the recent game theoretic literature on committee decision making. We consider theoretical work on the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication in committees. Moreover, we review recent experimental...

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Government deficits, wealth effects and the price level in an optimizing model

Annicchiarico, Barbara - 2003

This paper investigates the in inflationary effects of fscal policy in an optimizing general equilibrium monetary model with capital accumulation, exible prices and wealth effects. The model is calibrated to Euro Area quarterly data. Simulation results show that government defcits, high debt...

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Implementing optimal control in cointegrated I(1) structural VAR models

Monti, Francesca V. - 2003

This paper examines the feasibility of implementing Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control in structural cointegrated VAR models and sheds some light on the two major problems generated by such implementation. The first aspect to be taken into account is the effect of the presence of unit roots...

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