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Quadratic labor adjustment costs and the New-Keynesian model

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008

We build quadratic labor adjustment costs into an otherwise standard New-Keynesian model of the business cycle and show that this is sufficient to increase both, output and inflation persistence.

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Multinational firms and heterogeneous labor

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2008

. This paper analyzes the consequences of this advantage for production, employment and, most prominently, wages. We are able … to disentangle the effects of worker heterogeneity and firm heterogeneity on wages and show that the latter is important … to explain why multinationals typically pay higher wages. …

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Can trade really hurt? An empirical follow-up on Samuelson's controversial paper

Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2008

This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home country. We illustrate this prospect in a simple Ricardian model for sitations with outward knowledge spillovers. Within this framework Samuelson's Act II effects may occur....

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Individual expectations and aggregate behavior in learning to forecast experiments

Hommes, Cars; Lux, Thomas - 2008

Models with heterogeneous interacting agents explain macro phenomena through interactions at the micro level. We propose genetic algorithms as a model for individual expectations to explain aggregate market phenomena. The model explains all stylized facts observed in aggregate price fluctuations...

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Governmental activity, integration, and agglomeration

Ott, Ingrid; Soretz, Susanne - 2008

This paper analyzes, within a regional growth model, the impact of productive governmental policy and integration on the spatial distribution of economic activity. Integration is understood as enhancing territorial cooperation between the regions, and it describes the extent to which one region...

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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs

Dohse, Dirk; Ott, Ingrid - 2008

We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...

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Avoiding the trap: the dynamic interaction of North-South capital mobility and technology diffusion

Hübler, Michael - 2009

This paper analyzes a stylized model of international capital mobility and diffusion of embodied technologies from North to South. The South can fall behind in terms of technologies or get trapped in a situation, in which it is unable to attract foreign capital and embodied technologies, if its...

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Exchange-rate misalignments in duopoly: the case of Airbus and Boeing

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Fontagné, Lionel; Raff, Horst - 2009

We examine the effect of exchange-rate misalignments on competition in the market for large commercial aircraft. This market is a duopoly where players compete in dollar-denominated prices while one of them, Airbus, incurs costs mostly in euros. We construct and calibrate a simulation model to...

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Unions power, collective bargaining and optimal monetary policy

Faia, Ester; Rossi, Lorenza - 2008

We study the design of optimal monetary policy (Ramsey policies) in a model with sticky prices and unionized labour markets. Collective wage bargaining and unions monopoly power tend to dampen wage fluctuations and to amplify employment fluctuations relatively to a DNK model with walrasian...

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Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight

Chakrabarty, Debajyoti; Chanda, Areendam; Ghate, Chetan - 2006

We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive politics in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an...

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