Summary This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run relationships, interpreted as a labor demand and...

Clemens Fuest, ifo Institut und Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, plädiert für eine Ausgabenumschichtung statt einer Erweiterung der Verschuldungsspielräume. Die Verschuldungsregeln abzuschaffen wäre ein Signal, in der Fiskalpolitik noch weniger auf bisher auf Nachhaltigkeit und die...

In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions affect the transmission process of monetary policy. The...

We focus on a quantitative assessment of rigid labor markets in an environment of stable monetary policy. We ask how wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process and derive monetary policy implications. Towards that aim, we structurally model matching frictions and rigid wages...