Publication

Mar 2008

This publication explores the role of labor markets and its consequent effect on monetary policy amid macroeconomic shocks. The authors modify the Keynesian model by adding four variables - labor turnover costs, wage bargaining and unemployed and employed workers - to analyze labor market mechanisms. The report argues that the new Keynesian model can generate a hump shaped response to production output if the monetary shock includes a moderate autoregressive component.

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Author Wolfgang Lechthaler, Christian Merkl, Dennis Snower
Series Kiel Institute Working Papers
Issue 1409
Publisher Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Copyright © 2008 Kiel Institute for the World Economy
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