A tractable model with infinitely lived agents is constructed for the examination of bubbles and unemployment. It is … demonstrated that the presence of bubbles stimulates capital accumulation and reduces unemployment. The presence of bubbles also … changes the effects of government policies that target unemployment and welfare conditions in the labor market. The main …

-transaction duration process and vice versa. In order to solve the estimation problems implied by this interdependent formulation, we first … propose a GMM estimation procedure for the Autoregressive Conditional Duration model. The method is then extended to the … simultaneous estimation of the interdependent duration-volatility model. In an empirical application we utilize the model for an …