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Currently, private trust in commercial banks declines as a consequence of today’s financial crisis. As past crises, e.g. the Asian crisis, show, the loss of confidence in the financial sector typically causes private agents to withdraw their capital from financial institutions. Thus, the...
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This paper compares the welfare effects of anticipated and unanticipated cost-push shocks in the canonical New … anticipation of a future cost-push shock leads to a higher welfare loss than an unanticipated shock. A welfare gain from the … anticipation of a future cost shock may only occur if prices are sufficiently flexible. We analytically show that this surprising …
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We study the design of optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with labor turnover costs in which wages are set according to a right to manage bargaining where the firms' counterpart is given by currently employed workers. Our model captures well the salient features of European labor...
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inflation volatility faced by the central bank of a small open economy by analysing the impact of a global cost-push shock. We …
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In this paper we propose a novel way to model the labor market in the context of a New-Keynesian general equilibrium model, incorporating labor market frictions in the form of hiring and firing costs. We show that such a model is able to replicate many important stylized facts of the business...
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