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assess workers' performance, the discipline device role of unemployment may account for sharp declines in employment and … wages may prevail in equilibrium: the large movements in unemployment are indeed associated with real wage rigidity, which …
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This paper investigates the instability of capitalism defined as a condition under which capitalism creates inflation …, unemployment, and business cycles. Great economists such as Marx, Veblen, and Schumpeter have examined this problem, concluding … that capitalist instability will transform capitalism. A model is developed in this paper to investigate instability, and …
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This research note starts by showing that, for much of the postwar period, U.S. unemployment to has been a highly …
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the Great Recession, what visions they develop about future development of capitalism and to which extent these different …
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In this paper I evaluate the contribution of financial frictions in explaining the drop in aggregate TFP through misallocation during the Great Recession. I build a quantitative model with heterogeneous establishments; with the help of the model I compute the counterfactual drop in...
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In a panel of OECD and emerging economies, I find that recessions are associated with larger initial drops in investment and more persistent drops in output if they occur simultaneously with banking crises. Furthermore, the banking crises that are followed by more persistent output slumps are...
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The two books reviewed in this article are very different in style, quite different in content, but completely united in their purpose and major conclusions. Both books analyse the events from 2007 to 2010 to ascertain why the disaster happened and what must be done to put the United States...
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investment and high unemployment …
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