Labor Markets and Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment
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Blanchard, Olivier Jean
Gali, Jordi
Date Issued
April 2010
Journal
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
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American Economic Association
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Blanchard, Olivier, and Jordi Galí. 2010. "Labor Markets and Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2(2): 1–30. Copyright 2010 American Economic Association.
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Abstract
We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations with nominal rigidities and unemployment. We first show that under a standard utility specification, productivity shocks have no effect on unemployment in the constrained efficient allocation. That property is also shown to hold, despite labor market frictions, in the decentralized equilibrium under flexible prices and wages. Inefficient unemployment fluctuations arise when we introduce real-wage rigidities. As a result, in the presence of staggered price setting by firms, the central bank faces a trade-off between inflation and unemployment stabilization, which depends on labor market characteristics. We draw the implications for optimal monetary policy.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
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https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.2.2.1
