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In this paper, I estimate a series of long run reallocative shocks to sectoral employment using a stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth for the United States from 1960 through 2011. Reallocative shocks (which primarily measure construction and technology busts) have little...
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) to incorporate labor market hysteresis. This extension captures the idea that long and deep recessions (expansions) cause … financial crisis, compared to estimates without hysteresis. The smaller output gaps partly explain the absence of persistent …, hysteresis is expected to result in a structural improvement in growth and employment …
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This paper analyses the Canadian economy for the post 1960 period. It uses an accounting procedure developed in Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan (2006). The procedure identifies accounting factors that help align the predictions of the neoclassical growth model with macroeconomic variables observed...
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) to incorporate labor market hysteresis. This extension captures the idea that long and deep recessions (expansions) cause … financial crisis, compared to estimates without hysteresis. The smaller output gaps partly explain the absence of persistent …, hysteresis is expected to result in a structural improvement in growth and employment …
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During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
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Fiscal policy has become quite controversial in the post-Keynesian era, the debate over the Obama stimulus package being a contentious recent example. Some pundits go so far as to take the position that macroeconomic theory has failed to meaningfully progress in terms of providing useful...
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During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832101