Labor Markets and Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment

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 marke...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blanchard, Olivier Jean, Gali, Jordi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71906
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8142-5016