This paper assesses various capital and labour adjustment costs functions estimating a general equilibrium framework with Bayesian methods using US aggregate data. The estimation reveals that the adjustment costs are convex in both capital and labour and allowing for their joint interaction is...

This paper studies the dynamic response of labour input to neutral technology shocks. It uses a standard real business cycle model enriched with labour market search and matching frictions and investment-specific technological progress that enables a new, agnostic, identification scheme based on...