This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a … matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … as it is in the data, or to make the response of unemployment to a change in the unemployment benefit as small in the …

This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a … matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … as it is in the data, or to make the response of unemployment to a change in the unemployment benefit as small in the …

This paper builds up a simple New Keynesian model and revisits the relationship between unemployment and in ation in … beyond the tradeoff between the first moments of unemployment and infl ation provided by the short-run Phillips curve. Higher … volatility in ifln ation raises unemployment at low-frequency. Increased volatility in infl ation makes nominal wages more …

This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a … matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … as it is in the data, or to make the response of unemployment to a change in the unemployment benefit as small in the …