In this paper, we investigate the causes and consequences of "unclaimed" unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. A search model is developed where the costs to collecting UI benefits include both a traditional "fixed" administrative cost and an endogenous cost arising from worker and firm...

This article discusses the role of the intertemporal substitution mechanism in consumption. After noting that this mechanism is central for several monetary models but, being too strong, it generally tends to reduce the ability of these models to reproduce the stylized monetary facts, it...

We show that the welfare costs of business cycles in a monetary union can be higher under incomplete financial markets than under complete markets. A monetary union with home bias, sticky prices and country-specific shocks is a second-best environment in which the structure of financial markets...

Les chiffres publiés par la Dares le 27 janvier 2014 confirment que 2013 ne s’est pas terminée avec l’inversion espérée de la courbe de chômage. Au contraire, les indicateurs étudiés ne s’améliorent pas. Le chômage est toujours en hausse et il affecte tous les groupes d’âge et...

While most of the literature on employment protection has focused on government-mandated severance pay, it has recently been documented that a substantial share of severance payments derives from private contracts or collective agreements. This paper studies the determination of these payments....

Les chiffres publiés le 24 septembre 2014 par la DARES semblent encourageants car ils présentent une baisse de 0.3% du taux de chômage des demandeurs d’emploi de catégorie A. Qu’en estil exactement ? Il ne s’agit en définitive que d’un changement d’un mois à un autre et si l’on...

How to share money creation among the members of the European Monetary Union? To address this issue, we construct a two-country New Open-economy Macroeconomics model of an asymmetric monetary union with an incomplete financial market and home bias in consumption. We consider two sharing rules...

In this paper, we measure the welfare costs/gains associated with financial market incompleteness in a monetary union. To do this, we build on a two-country model of a monetary union with sticky prices subject to asymmetric productivity shocks. For most plausible values of price stickiness, we...