Stagnation traps

G Benigno, L Fornaro - The Review of Economic Studies, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We provide a Keynesian growth theory in which pessimistic expectations can lead to very
persistent, or even permanent, slumps characterized by high unemployment and weak …

Sticky wages: evidence from quarterly microeconomic data

HL Bihan, J Montornès, T Heckel - American Economic Journal …, 2012 - aeaweb.org
Using an original micro-dataset from France, we investigate nominal wage stickiness.
Nominal wage changes are found to occur at a quarterly frequency of around 38 percent …

Financial crises and exchange rate policy

L Fornaro - Journal of International Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper studies exchange rate policy in a small open economy model featuring an
occasionally binding collateral constraint and Fisherian deflation. The goal is to evaluate the …

Do labor market institutions matter for business cycles?

S Gnocchi, A Lagerborg, E Pappa - Journal of Economic Dynamics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Using panel data of 19 OECD countries observed over 40 years and data on specific labor
market reform episodes we conclude that labor market institutions matter for business cycle …

Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle

F Koenig, A Manning, B Petrongolo - Review of Economics and …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Using micro data for the UK and Germany, we provide novel evidence on the cyclical
properties of reservation wages and estimate that wages and reservation wages are …

International debt deleveraging

L Fornaro - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This paper provides a framework to understand the adjustment triggered by an episode of
debt deleveraging among financially integrated countries. During a period of international …

Covid-19 pandemic, state aid and firm productivity

T Bighelli, T Lalinsky, J Vanhala - Bank of Finland Research …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity by matching firm
performance outcomes with corresponding firm-level information on government support …

Unemployment and productivity in the long run: the role of macroeconomic volatility

P Benigno, LA Ricci, P Surico - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
This paper presents a new empirical regularity between the volatility of productivity growth
and long-run unemployment for a given level of long-run productivity growth. A theoretical …

Liquidity-constrained consumers and optimal monetary policy in a currency union

D Ida - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines optimal monetary policy in a currency union model with liquidity-
constrained (LC) consumers. The result demonstrates that given LC consumers in the home …

The wage curve before and during the Greek economic crisis

J Daouli, M Demoussis, N Giannakopoulos… - Empirical Economics, 2017 - Springer
Using cross-sectional data from the Labour Force Survey, we investigate whether a wage
curve, ie a negative relationship between real wages and regional unemployment, could be …