We explore the distortions in business cycle models arising from inefficiencies in price setting and in the search process matching firms to unemployed workers, and the implications of these distortions for monetary policy. To this end, we characterize the tax instruments that would implement the first best equilibrium allocations and then examine the trade-offs faced by monetary policy when tax instruments are unavailable. Our findings are that the welfare cost of search inefficiency can be large, but the incentive for policy to deviate from the inefficient flexible-price allocation is in general small. Sizable welfare gains are available if the steady state of the economy is inefficient, and these gains do not depend on the existence of a...
In this paper, we explore the role of labor markets for monetary policy in the euro area in a New Ke...
I show that labor market asymmetries are key to generating a quantitatively significant trade-off be...
We focus on a quantitative assessment of rigid labor markets in an environment of stable monetary po...
Lagged benefits relative to costs can weaken the incentives to an efficiency-enhancing labor market ...
This paper investigates the effects of monetary policy on output, its distribu-tion, and welfare in ...
I show that a trade-off between inflation volatility and average unem-ployment arises in a New Keyne...
We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and dr...
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Price Level Determination When Tax Payments Are Required in Money. We formalize the idea that the pr...
textabstractIn exploring the impact of tax policy on labor-market performance, the paper first inves...
Lagged benefits relative to costs can politically block an efficiency-enhancing labor market reform,...
Impacts of \u85scal and monetary policies are assessed in the an open econ-omy two sector multi-hous...
We re-examine the optimality of tax smoothing from the point of view of frictional labor markets. Ou...
In this paper, we explore the role of labor markets for monetary policy in the euro area in a New Ke...
To identify the labor market reforms that offer the highest payoff, we develop a medium-scale two-co...
In this paper, we explore the role of labor markets for monetary policy in the euro area in a New Ke...
I show that labor market asymmetries are key to generating a quantitatively significant trade-off be...
We focus on a quantitative assessment of rigid labor markets in an environment of stable monetary po...
Lagged benefits relative to costs can weaken the incentives to an efficiency-enhancing labor market ...
This paper investigates the effects of monetary policy on output, its distribu-tion, and welfare in ...
I show that a trade-off between inflation volatility and average unem-ployment arises in a New Keyne...
We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and dr...
This paper models unemployment as a general equilibrium solution in labor and capital markets, while...
Price Level Determination When Tax Payments Are Required in Money. We formalize the idea that the pr...
textabstractIn exploring the impact of tax policy on labor-market performance, the paper first inves...
Lagged benefits relative to costs can politically block an efficiency-enhancing labor market reform,...
Impacts of \u85scal and monetary policies are assessed in the an open econ-omy two sector multi-hous...
We re-examine the optimality of tax smoothing from the point of view of frictional labor markets. Ou...
In this paper, we explore the role of labor markets for monetary policy in the euro area in a New Ke...
To identify the labor market reforms that offer the highest payoff, we develop a medium-scale two-co...
In this paper, we explore the role of labor markets for monetary policy in the euro area in a New Ke...
I show that labor market asymmetries are key to generating a quantitatively significant trade-off be...
We focus on a quantitative assessment of rigid labor markets in an environment of stable monetary po...