alternative monetary rules on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We use the inflation forecasts of 8 competing …

the probabilities of worker flows across employment and unemployment in euro area countries during the period 2000-2015 in …

employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …

deviate from the strict inflation targeting since the policy maker faces a typical unemployment/inflation trade-off. In this … (hence the output gap) since the latter also depends on the evolution of unemployment. The matching frictions add a … matches. Hence optimal monetary policy features unemployment targeting along with inflation targeting …

This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with …

supranational unemployment insurance scheme. The model is calibrated to the euro area's core and periphery and features a rich …-regional correlation of unemployment and inflation increases by up to 52% and 27%, respectively, compared to the decentralised setting. The …

This paper studies unemployment and vacancy developments in the euro area at the aggregate and country level over the … employment losses, especially in some sectors. The extent to which the rise in unemployment and particularly long …-term unemployment reflects growing mismatch across euro area labour markets is one of the biggest questions facing euro area labour …

surrounding the effects of rule-based monetary policy on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We employ a Bayesian …

This paper examines the usefulness of the Okun relationship as a “rule of thumb” for predicting changes in unemployment … differential reaction of unemployment to changes in the various expenditure components of GDP - significantly enhances the capacity … of the Okun relationship (in comparison to the aggregate “rule of thumb”) for predicting movements in unemployment. The …

lower levels of liquid wealth. This supports the notion that the persistence of the unemployment shock is an important …