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Labor market institutions and the business cycle Unemployment rigidities vs. real wage rigidities
Abbritti, Mirko; Weber, Sebastian - 2010
This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605229
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Sovereign risk and macroeconomic fluctuations in an emerging market economy
Kirchner, Markus; Rieth, Malte - 2010
This paper assesses the role of sovereign risk in explaining macroeconomic fluctuations in Turkey. We estimate two versions of a simple New Keynesian small open economy model on quarterly data for the period 1994Q3-2008Q2: A basic version and a version augmented by a default premium on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382024
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Sovereign Risk and Macroeconomic Fluctuations in an Emerging Market Economy
Kirchner, Markus - 2010
This paper assesses the role of sovereign risk in explaining macroeconomic fluctuations in Turkey. We estimate two versions of a simple New Keynesian small open economy model on quarterly data for the period 1994Q3-2008Q2: A basic version and a version augmented by a default premium on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137196
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The dynamics of balanced expansion in monetary economies with sovereign debt
Böhm, Volker - 2018 - Version: September 26, 2018
The paper examines the role of fiscal and monetary policy on the dynamics of monetary expansion in a macroeconomy. Its microeconomic structure defined by producers with neoclassical production functions, heterogeneous OLG consumers, and a stationary fiscal and monetary policy induces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903801
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Downward real wage rigidity and equal treatment wage contracts : theory and evidence
Snell, Andy; Stüber, Heiko; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2018
they joined the establishment from unemployment This is supportive of equal treatment. We also show that a four parameter … series properties and co-properties of real wages, output, and unemployment, in particular the asymmetric response of wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855567
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The recovery from the Great Recession: a long, evolving expansion
Shambaugh, Jay C.; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405441
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Reorienting fiscal policy : a critical assessment of fiscal fine-tuning
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2013
The present paper offers a fundamental critique of fiscal policy as it is understood in theory and exercised in practice. Two specific demand-side stabilization methods are examined here: conventional pump priming and the new designation of fiscal policy effectiveness found in the New Consensus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787031
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How cyclical is the user cost of labor?
Kudlyak, Marianna - 2024
In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of economic conditions at the time of hiring on future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507553
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Downward real wage rigidity and equal treatment wage contracts : evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Snell, Andy; Stüber, Heiko - 2014
unemployment is very close to zero when unemployment is above its long term average but large and highly significant when below. We … unemployment. It cannot however match the persistence of the German unemployment rate. We conjecture that extending the model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490623
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Size effects of fiscal policy and business confidence in the Euro area
Michail, Nektarios A.; Savva, Christos S.; Koursaros, … - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-15
In the aftermath of the European sovereign debt crisis (2009–2014), the management of expectations has risen in importance. However, policy responses have emphasized the management of fiscal spending without examining the impact changes in the business confidence have on the economy. This...
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