The sudden rise in labor's share of income during the U.S. Great Depression of 1929-1933 is examined. To explain this phenomenon, the deflation-based model of the Great Depression of Bordo et al. (2000) [Bordo, M.D.; Erceg, C.J.; Evans, C.L. "Money, Sticky Wages, and the Great Depression."...

We herein advance a contribution to the theoretical literature on financial frictions and show the significance of the matching mechanism in explaining the countercyclical behavior of interest rate spreads. We demonstrate that when matching friction is associated with a Nash bargaining solution,...

This article compares the performances of some non-stationarity tests on simulated series, using the business-cycle model of Chang et al. (2007) [Y. Chang, T. Doh, F. Schorfheide, (2007). Non-stationary Hours in a DSGE Model. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 39, 357-1373] as data generating...

In a matching and intrafi…rm bargaining economy with constant return to scale production and matching technologies, large fi…rms hire and train workers efficiently. The efficiency of the competitive economy relies on the ability of large fi…rm to take into account the consequences of training...

This paper proposes a new explanation of the job quality issue in search and matching models, which is not based on market externalities but on strategic interactions within firms through the intrafirm bargaining process. We develop a matching and intrafirm bargaining model in which large firms...

This article is devoted to the study of search frictions in financial markets where agents invest in costly search activities to make financial transactions. Search frictions are important to explain the existence of financial relationships and to understand the functioning of over-the-counter...

La crise récente a souligné la nécessité de mieux comprendre les liens entre les marchés financiers et les cycles économiques. Cette Lettre présente les résultats d’une recherche sur le rôle de la composition de la dette des entreprises. L’étude de 93 épisodes de récession dans...

This article is devoted to the cyclical properties of the labor market search model with exogenous job destruction. Its internal propagation mechanism of shocks has been criticized for requiring too strong labor market constraints. Here, its predictions are compared according to the employment...

The present paper contributes to the body of knowledge on search frictions in credit markets by demonstrating their ability to explain why the net interest margins of banks behave countercyclically. During periods of expansion, a fall in the net interest margin proceeds from two mechanisms: (i)...