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1990s, a period characterized by high inflation. As inflation declined wages became less pro-cyclical, a feature that is … consistent with emerging downward wage rigidities in a low-inflation environment. Compositional effects associated with changes …
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characterized by high inflation. As inflation declined wages became less pro-cyclical, a feature that is consistent with emerging … downward wage rigidities in a low inflation environment. Compositional effects associated with changes in labor participation …
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Section 2 of the Sherman Act bans monopolization of any part of interstate commerce. This essay draws on macroeconomic theory and the New Deal experience with partial repeal of the antitrust laws and cartelization of labor to examine the relationship between macroeconomic stability and the...
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This study empirically addresses claims about the effects of strikes on output growth, inflation, and non … any case, this was not contested. Our findings, however, contradict the claims that strikes ensue inflation and …-agriculture employment but has no effect on inflation. The inflation finding suggests that strikes do not cause a wage-price spiral because …
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Emerging economies are characterized by higher consumption and real wage variability relative to output and a strongly countercyclical current account. A real business cycle model of a small open economy that embeds a Mortensen-Pissarides type of search-matching frictions and countercyclical...
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We build a model with a traditional banking system, endogenous entry of firms and fintech intermediaries, and firm heterogeneity in credit access and usage to study the credit-market, macroeconomic, and business cycle implications of the recent sizable growth in the number of fintech...
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Financial inclusion is strikingly low in emerging economies. In only a few years, financial technologies (fintech) have led to a dramatic expansion in the number of non-traditional credit intermediaries, but the macroeconomic and credit-market implications of this rapid growth of fintech are not...
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We build a model with a traditional banking system, endogenous entry of firms and fintech intermediaries, and firm heterogeneity in credit access and usage to study the credit-market, macroeconomic, and business cycle implications of the recent sizable growth in the number of fintech...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014239614
Downward wage rigidity limits the downward adjustment of wages, especially during recessions. Although macroeconomic models generally suggest that wage rigidity exacerbates employment losses and generates asymmetric business cycles, direct empirical evidence is scarce. In this paper, we...
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consequence, inflation is less volatile and output is more volatile than under a non-robust policy. Under one particular timing …
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