Wage stickiness and unemployment fluctuations: an alternative approach

dc.contributor.authorCasares Polo, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorMoreno Pérez, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorVázquez, Jesús
dc.contributor.departmentEconomíaes_ES
dc.contributor.departmentEkonomiaeu
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-27T11:22:21Z
dc.date.available2018-11-27T11:22:21Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractErceg et al. (J Monet Econ 46:281–313, 2000) introduce sticky wages in a New-Keynesian general-equilibrium model. Alternatively, it is shown here how wage stickiness may bring unemployment fluctuations into a New-Keynesian model. Using a Bayesian econometric approach, bothmodels are estimated with US quarterly data of the Great Moderation. Estimation results are similar in the two models and both provide a good empirical fit, with the crucial difference that our model delivers unemployment fluctuations. Thus, second-moment statistics of the US rate of unemployment are replicated reasonably well in our proposed New-Keynesian model with sticky wages. Demand-side shocks play a more important role than technology innovations or cost-push shock in explaining both output and unemployment fluctuations. In the welfare analysis, the cost of cyclical fluctuations during the Great Moderation is estimated at 0.60% of steady-state consumption.en
dc.description.sponsorshipFinancial support through research projects ECO2008-02641, ECO2009-11151, SEJ2007-66592-C03-01/ECON and ECO2010-16970 from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) is also acknowledged. The first author also thanks Fundación Ramón Areces (VII Concurso Investigación en Economía) for financial support.en
dc.format.extent28 p.
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dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s13209-011-0079-y
dc.identifier.issn1869-4187 (Print)
dc.identifier.issn1869-4195 (Electronic)
dc.identifier.urihttps://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/31503
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.ispartofSERIEs, (2012) 3:395–422en
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13209-011-0079-y
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2011. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.en
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dc.subjectWage rigidityen
dc.subjectPrice rigidityen
dc.subjectUnemploymenten
dc.titleWage stickiness and unemployment fluctuations: an alternative approachen
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