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of aggregate unemployment in postwar data. While this range may seem wide it is an indication that the importance of …
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We develop a generalised impulse response function (GIRF) approach to explore the different impacts of aggregate and sectoral shocks within a VAR-GARCH-M model. Using the outout of our GIRF analysis, we explore the behaviour of three European countries(Gremany, Spain and the UK). We analyse the...
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We develop a generalised impulse response function (GIRF) approach to explore the different impacts of aggregate and sectoral shocks within a VAR-GARCH-M model. Using the output of our GIRF analysis, we explore the behaviour of three European countries (Germany, Spain and the UK). We analyse the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007506
This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …
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This paper investigates why labors wouldnft be reallocated from contracting firms to expanding firms in the 1990s in Japan, focusing on the increase of zombie firms after the burst of the bubble economy. Main evidences are twofold. First, higher proportion of total industry labors by zombies...
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This article develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the general … affects unemployment as follows. An increase in aggregate demand leads firms to find more customers. This reduces the idle … time of their employees and thus increases their labor demand. This in turn reduces unemployment. We combine the …
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I study the consumption responses of heterogeneous households following changes in both house prices and interest rates. I show the common assumption that household period utility is separable in housing and consumption can be consistent with the observed co-movement between these two series...
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of aggregate unemployment in postwar data. While this range may seem wide it is an indication that the importance of …
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We identify a ‘risk news' shock in a vector autoregression (VAR), modifying Barsky and Sims’s procedure, while incorporating sign restrictions to simultaneously identify monetary policy, technology and demand shocks. The VAR-identifed risk news shock is estimated to account for around 2%-12%...
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For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency...
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