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During the Great Recession of 2007, unemployment reached nearly 10 percent and the ratio of unemployment to open positions (as measured by the Help Wanted OnLine Index) more than tripled. The weak labor market prompted an unprecedented extension in the length of time in which a claimant can...
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The last 20 years, the importance of a number of behavioral features have been widely accepted within economics, and they are now regularly included in standard macro models. Where have this development led us? I argue that the insights from behavioral economics have led to important progress in...
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This paper has two aims. First, it provides simple theoretical models that highlight two channels whereby monetary shocks have permanent real effects and the interactions between these channels. Second, it presents an empirical dynamic model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the...
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This paper examines the relationship between volatility shocks and preference shocks in an analytically tractable endogenous growth model with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility. I show that there exists an explicit mapping between volatility shocks and preference shocks, and a rise...
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We analyze the positive and normative effects of a progressive tax on wages in a nonlinear New Keynesian DSGE model in …
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We analyze the positive and normative effects of a progressive tax on wages in a nonlinear New Keynesian DSGE model in …
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We develop a representative agent model of a production economy in order to explain the joint dynamics of house prices and equity returns. In a model generating costly business cycle fluctuations, we find that restrictions on housing supply have important implications for asset pricing. Together...
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Nach der Stagnation im Winterhalbjahr 2011/2012 ist die deutsche Wirtschaft wieder auf Wachstumskurs. Die weltwirtschaftlichen Perspektiven, die sich im vergangenen Jahr infolge der möglichen Beeinträchtigungen durch die Staatsschuldenkrisen merklich verschlechterten, haben sich wieder...
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Die Staatsschuldenkrise im Euroraum hat die deutsche Wirtschaft bereits in Mitleidenschaft gezogen. Die Ausfuhren in die Länder des Euroraums sind rückläufig, die stark angestiegenen Ausfuhren in die Schwellenländer haben dies bisher aber mehr als ausgeglichen. Außerdem gehen die...
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Die deutsche Wirtschaft hat im Winterhalbjahr 2012/2013 eine Vollbremsung hingelegt. Im Jahresdurchschnitt 2013 wird das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt in Deutschland auch deshalb nur um ¾ Prozent zulegen. Im Jahresverlauf wird der Außenhandel stärker expandieren. Damit werden die Investitionen...
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