We analyze the business cycle implications of firms having oligopsony power in labor markets, as well as oligopoly power in product markets, within the context of an estimated New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with firm entry and exit. The strategic interaction between...

We analyze the business cycle implications of firms having oligopsony power in labor markets, as well as oligopoly power in product markets, within the context of an estimated New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with firm entry and exit. The strategic interaction between...

We construct a database of public pension policy changes with motivation and implementation information for ten OECD countries. Structural pension reforms, motivated by long-run sustainability concerns, often come with prolonged phase-in periods. In response to pension retrenchments implemented...

This paper analyzes the importance of monetary and fiscal policy shocks in explaining US macroeconomic fluctuations, and establishes new stylized facts. The novelty of our empirical analysis is that we jointly consider both monetary and fiscal policy, whereas the existing literature only focuses...

This article contributes to the debate on fiscal multipliers, in the context of an estimated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, featuring a rich fiscal policy block and a transmission mechanism for government spending shocks. I find the multiplier for government spending to be 1.07,...

This paper analyzes the importance of monetary and fiscal policy shocks in explaining US macroeconomic fluctuations, and establishes new stylized facts. The novelty of our empirical analysis is that we jointly consider both monetary and fiscal policy, whereas the existing literature only focuses...