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Hysteresis vs. natural rate of US unemployment

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  • Cheng, Ka Ming
  • Durmaz, Nazif
  • Kim, Hyeongwoo
  • Stern, Michael L.

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This paper investigates the stochastic nature of the unemployment rate allowing for cross-section dependence from a panel of US state-level data. We first employ the PANIC method to identify the common and idiosyncratic components. Powerful recursive mean adjustment (RMA) methods are used to test for unit roots. We find significant evidence of a nonstationary common component when the data from the most recent recession are included. Even when stationarity is empirically supported, the bias-corrected half-life of the common component appears very long, casting doubt on the usefulness of the natural rate hypothesis.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Economic Modelling.

Volume (Year): 29 (2012)
Issue (Month): 2 ()
Pages: 428-434

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Handle: RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:29:y:2012:i:2:p:428-434

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Keywords: Unemployment rate; Natural rate hypothesis; Hysteresis; PANIC; RMA; Cross-section dependence;

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  1. Marcel Aloy & Gilles Dufrenot & Charles Lai Tong & Anne Peguin-Feissolle, 2012. "A Smooth Transition Long-Memory Model," Working Papers halshs-00793680, HAL.
  2. Donald Freeman, . "On (not) Closing the Gaps: The Evolution of National and Regional Unemployment Rates by Race and Ethnicity," Working Papers 1101, Sam Houston State University, Department of Economics and International Business.
  3. Partridge, Mark D. & Rickman, Dan S. & Olfert, M. Rose & Tan, Ying, 2012. "When spatial equilibrium fails: is place-based policy second best?," MPRA Paper 40270, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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