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We propose a theoretical framework to reconcile episodes of V-shaped and L-shaped recovery, encompassing the behaviour of the U.S. economy before and after the Great Recession. In a DSGE model with endogenous growth, negative demand shocks destroy productive capacity, moving GDP to a lower...
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the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …
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unemployment depends positively on the drift coefficients and negatively on the volatility coefficients of both price and … relation of inflation and productivity with unemployment at low frequencies. Long-run unemployment is negatively correlated …
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causes deficient aggregate demand and thereby unemployment in the presence of nominal wage stickiness attributable to union … wage setting. In this long-run stagnation, generous unemployment benefits reduce unemployment. Moreover, paradoxically …, unemployment declines if labor unions give more weight to nominal wage gains compared with employment increases …
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Although New Keynesian models with labor market frictions found an increase in unemployment and a decrease in labor … volatilities of unemployment and labor market tightness are not as high as their empirical counterparts. This calls for the … volatility of unemployment and labor market tightness in response to a positive technology shock compared to the model without on …
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unemployment depends positively on the drift coefficients and negatively on the volatility coefficients of both price and … relation of inflation and productivity with unemployment at low frequencies. Long-run unemployment is negatively correlated …
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This paper analyses how labour market heterogeneity affects unemployment, productivity and business cycle dynamics that … skilled workers increases the natural rate of unemployment and reduces total factor productivity with long- run effects on the … Beveridge curves. Skill-specific labour market heterogeneity leads to a attening of the Phillips curve as wages and unemployment …
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​This paper studies episodes of exceptionally large capital inflows. We find that these events are typically … accompanied by an economic boom, and followed by a slump. Moreover, during episodes of large capital inflows capital and labor …. However, accumulating reserves during the period in which capital inflows are unusually large appears to limit the extent of …
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The interaction between income distribution, accumulation, employment and the utilization of capital is central to …
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Throughout his career, Malcolm Sawyer has both encouraged and contributed to the development of a Kaleckian alternative to conventional macroeconomic theory. In the spirit of this endeavour, we construct a Keynes-Kalecki model of cyclical growth with agent-based features. Our model is driven by...
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