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market regularities and (ii) macroeconomic dynamics (long-term rates of growth, GDP uctuations, unemployment rates … relations are conducive to coordination successes with higher and smoother growth. …
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coordination hurdles. In his analysis Joe is in many respects a "closet evolutionist" who in fact highlighted and explored many … properties e.g. coordination failures and the possibility of path-dependent multiplicity of growth trajectories which are far and … major themes, namely, the consequences of learning and dynamic increasing returns, and "Keynesian" coordination failures …
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We develop a theory of labor markets in a monetary economy with four realistic features: search frictions, worker productivity shocks, wage rigidity, and two-sided lack of commitment. Due to the non-Coasean nature of labor contracts, inefficient job separations occur in the form of endogenous...
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In this paper I will follow Hyman Minsky in arguing that the postwar period has seen a slow transformation of the economy from a structure that could be characterized as "robust" to one that is "fragile". While many economists and policymakers have argued that "no one saw it coming", Minsky and...
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Since the beginning of the fall of monetarism in the mid-1980s, mainstream macroeconomics has incorporated many of the principles of post-Keynesian endogenous money theory. This paper argues that the most important critical component of post-Keynesian monetary theory today is its rejection of...
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This paper traces the evolution of John Maynard Keynes's theory of the business cycle from his early writings in 1913 to his policy prescriptions for the control of fluctuations in the early 1940s. The paper identifies six different "theories" of business fluctuations. With different theoretical...
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Post-Keynesians have questioned the relevance of behavioral economics on methodological grounds, citing the predominant focus of the behavioral literature on possible deviations of individual behavior from extreme standards of perfect optimization. The very limited influence of behavioral...
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", stock-market fluctuations should Granger cause fluctuations of the unemployment rate. We performed several Granger … (2015) for U.S. data, we found that the stock market Granger causes unemployment in the short run and the long run when we … control for a deterministic trend in the unemployment rate. Results of a frequency-domain test show that, in the short run …
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This paper shows that Keynes's involuntary unemployment derived from Walras's voluntary unemployment by means of … supply function is a strongly increasing function, as in Walras's approach, there might be only voluntary unemployment, and … there might be involuntary unemployment if the equilibrium point locates between boundary points of the horizontal segment …
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producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the …
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