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We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s-2007), and recent substantial increase (2008-2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious 'buffer stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence of...
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We study the transmission of liquidity shocks in a dynamic general equilibrium model where firms and households are subject to liquidity risk. The provision of liquidity services is undertaken by financial intermediaries that allocate the stock of liquid asset between the different sectors of...
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lead price-setting firms to negotiate wage rates with their employees. The negotiation of wages substantially increases … which induce smooth inflation also dampen the adjustment of wages in response to shocks. In the search and matching …
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labor contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content to this proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages … of the reform on entry wages and a decrease of the returns to tenure by around 20% in the first year and by 8% over the …
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To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions reduce loan granting, especially to firms or from banks...
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During the Great Recession, unemployment increased substantially across several euro area countries, with wages … effect of changes in the composition of workers on wages and wage cyclicality. We find that compositional effects are highly … results partially explain the muted response of the observed wages to the business cycle, as wages decreased more than what …
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Based on long US time series we document a range of empirical properties of the labor's share of GDP, including its substantial medium-run swings. We explore the extent to which these empirical regularities can be explained by a calibrated micro-founded long-run economic growth model with...
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Using a dedicated set of questions in the 2014 Luxembourg Household Finance and Consumption Survey (LU-HFCS), we show that a substantial share of households contributes their own labour to the acquisition of their main residence. These contributions help households faced with credit constraints,...
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lead price-setting firms to negotiate wage rates with their employees. The negotiation of wages substantially increases … which induce smooth inflation also dampen the adjustment of wages in response to shocks. In the search and matching …
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and cyclicality of wages to identify the two key parameters of the model - the value of non-market activity and the …
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