amplifies fluctuations in unemployment and results in excess unemployment volatility relative to the efficient allocation …. Recessions disproportionately affect lowproductivity workers, whose unemployment spells are inefficiently frequent and long. We …-productivity workers. The unemployment consequences are especially severe when nominal interest rates are close to the effective lower …

I evaluate the welfare performance of a target for the level of nominal GDP in a New Keynesian model with unemployment …

, instead, favors unemployment-centric policy. One- and two-agent alternatives can show unanimous disapproval of inflation …

alternative monetary rules on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We use the inflation forecasts of 8 competing …

surrounding the effects of rule-based monetary policy on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We employ a Bayesian …

. Unemployed workers' skill losses generate multiple steady-state unemployment rates. When monetary policy is constrained by the … permanent unemployment trap. Since monetary policy is powerless to escape such traps ex post, it must avoid them ex ante. The …

Since the advent of Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) models, countercyclical unemployment risk has been deemed … an important amplification mechanism for business cycles shocks. Yet, the aggregate effects of such "unemployment fears … model. While unemployment fears can exert noticeable aggregate effects, we find their magnitude to depend importantly on the …

surrounding the effects of rule-based monetary policy on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We employ a Bayesian …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

deviate from the strict inflation targeting since the policy maker faces a typical unemployment/inflation trade-off. In this … (hence the output gap) since the latter also depends on the evolution of unemployment. The matching frictions add a … matches. Hence optimal monetary policy features unemployment targeting along with inflation targeting …