Characteristics of business cycles are quite different across developed countries. Real wages and working hours a re less sensitive to exogenous shocks in the United States than in Brit ain and Japan. Using a model with a microeconomic foundation, this paper provides an economic explanation of...

Combining the dynamic Keynesian cross (Otaki, M., 2007. The dynamically extended Keynesian cross and the welfare-improving fiscal policy. Economics Letters 96, 23-29.) with modified efficient wage bargaining, based on McDonald and Solow (McDonald, I.M. and Solow, R.M. 1981. Wage bargaining and...

Characteristics of business cycles are quite different across developed countries. As Gordon (1982) pointed out, in the United States real wages and the adjustment of working hours are less flexible than in Britain and Japan. Using a business cycle model with microeconomic foundation, this paper...

Characteristics of business cycles are quite different across developed countries. As Gordon (1982) pointed out, in the United States real wages and the adjustment of working hours are less flexible than in Britain and Japan. Using a business cycle model with a microeconomic foundation, this...