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Sustainability, Debt Management, and Public Debt Policy in Japan

Doi, Takero - 2006

authority of Japan because it has accumulated the debt outstanding much more than other countries …The purpose of this paper is to analyze sustainability issues of Japan's fiscal policy and then to discuss the debt …

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Disinflation and Fiscal Reform : A Neoclassical Perspective

Rigobon, Roberto - 2002

During the last two decades, many Latin American countries engaged in disinflation programs based on both exchange rate management and fiscal reforms. However, in most instances, part of the fiscal reform was delayed or not implemented completely, so the fiscal deficit increased and the program...

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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union

Gali, Jordi - 2005

We lay out a tractable model for fiscal and monetary policy analysis in a currency union, and analyze its implications for the optimal design of such policies. Monetary policy is conducted by a common central bank, which sets the interest rate for the union as a whole. Fiscal policy is...

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Joined at the Hip : Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity-Dependent World

Calvo, Guillermo; Velasco, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the effects of monetary and fiscal policies when both money and government bonds provide liquidity services … the supply of bonds. Those movements in government bond prices affect available liquidity, and therefore aggregate demand … interest rate on money. We conclude that in a liquidity-dependent world, fiscal and monetary policies are joined at the hip …

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Fiscal Reform and Government Debt in Japan : A Neoclassical Perspective

Hansen, Gary - 2013

Past government spending in Japan is currently imposing a significant fiscal burden that is reflected in a net debt to …

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Labor-Market Frictions and Employment Fluctuations

Hall, Robert E. - 1998

The labor market occupies center stage in modern theories of fluctuations. The most important phenomenon to explain and understand in a recession is the sharp decline in employment and jump in unemployment. This chapter for the Handbook of Macroeconomics considers explanations based on frictions...

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Labor Market Dynamics When Ideas are Harder to Find

Bilal, Adrien; Engbom, Niklas; Mongey, Simon; Violante, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper evaluates the impact of slowing economic growth on labor market dynamism and misallocation. It provides a model of endogenous growth via imitation in a frictional labor market. The framework accounts for rich data on worker job-to-job transitions as well as stochastic and lifecycle...

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Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor, Incomplete Markets, and Labor Market Frictions

Krusell, Per - 2008

This paper analyzes a model that features frictions, an operative labor supply margin, and incomplete markets. We first provide analytic solutions to a benchmark model that includes indivisible labor and incomplete markets in the absence of trading frictions. We show that the steady state levels...

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Wage Determination and Employment Fluctuations

Hall, Robert E. - 2003

Following a recession, the aggregate labor market is slack employment remains below normal and recruiting efforts of employers, as measured by vacancies, are low. A model of matching frictions explains the qualitative responses of the labor market to adverse shocks, but requires implausibly...

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Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions

Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a frictional labor market model with multiple regions and heterogeneous firms to study how frictions impeding labor mobility across space affect the joint allocation of labor across firms and regions. Bringing the model to matched employer-employee data from Germany, we find that...

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