We embed convex hiring and investment costs and their interaction in a New Keynesian DSGE model with Nash wage bargaining. We explore the implications with respect to inflation dynamics in the New Keynesian Phillips curve. We use two structural estimation methods (GMM and Bayesian estimation)...

We embed convex hiring and investment costs and their interaction in a New Keynesian DSGE model with Nash wage bargaining. We explore the implications with respect to inflation dynamics. We estimate hiring frictions to explain about 60% of the variation in marginal costs, the labor share to...

Using publicly available data for a group of 20 OECD countries, we find that the cyclical volatility of the unemployment rate exhibits substantial cross-country and time variation. We then investigate empirically whether labour market institutions can account for this observed heterogeneity and...

We extend the standard textbook search and matching model by introducing deep habits in consumption. The cyclical fluctuations of vacancies and unemployment in our model can replicate those observed in the US data, with labour market tightness being 20 times more volatile than consumption....

We estimate a New Keynesian model with matching frictions and nominal wage rigidities on UK data. We are able to identify important structural parameters, recover the unobservable shocks that have affected the UK economy since 1971 and study the transmission mechanism. With matching frictions,...

Shocks to investment-specific technology have been identified as a main source of U.S. aggregate output volatility. In this paper, we present a model with frictions in the labor market and explore the contribution of these shocks to the volatility of labor market variables, namely, unemployment,...