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This paper studies a dispersed information economy in which agents can exert costly attention to learn about an unknown aggregate state of the economy. Under certain conditions, attention and four measures of uncertainty are countercyclical: Agents pay more attention when they expect the economy...
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, productivity is driven by both neutral and investment specific technical change, multiple price and wage indices identify price and …
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We integrate an epidemiological model, augmented with contact and mobility analyses, with a two‐sector macroeconomic model, to assess the economic costs of labor supply disruptions in a pandemic. The model is designed to capture key characteristics of the U.S. input-output tables with a core...
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more than a quarter of their annual pre-liberalization salary. The increase in the growth rate of labor productivity in the …
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This paper examines how increases in regulatory uncertainty may affect employment and presents empirical evidence that the employment effects of regulatory uncertainty are unequal for workers with different levels of educational attainment. VAR estimations suggest that a regulatory uncertainty...
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in 2020, complemented by a negative contribution from foreign and investment demand particularly in 2020q2 and a negative …
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models suggest that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a …-level exposure to the 2008-9 financial crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and has … 12% higher today if productivity-enhancing investments had grown at pre-crisis rates. …
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Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...
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