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Search, Nash Bargaining and Rule of Thumb Consumers

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  • J.E. Bosca
  • R. Domenech
  • J. Ferri

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This paper analyses the effects of introducing typical Keynesian features, namely rule-of-thumb consumers and consumption habits, into a standard labour market search model. It is a well-known fact that labour market matching with Nash-wage bargaining improves the ability of the standard real business cycle model to replicate some of the cyclical properties featuring the labour market. However, when habits and rule-of-thumb consumers are taken into account, the labour market search model gains extra power to reproduce some of the stylised facts characterising the US labour market, as well as other business cycle facts concerning aggregate consumption and investment behaviour.

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Paper provided by BBVA Bank, Economic Research Department in its series Working Papers with number 0912.

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Length: 32 pages
Date of creation: Jun 2009
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Keywords: general equilibrium; labour market search; habits; rule-of-thumb consumers;

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  4. Javier Andrés & José E. Boscá & Javier Ferri, 2011. "Household debt and labour market fluctuations," Banco de España Working Papers 1129, Banco de España.
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  6. Regassa Senbeta S., 2011. "How applicable are the New Keynesian DSGE models to a typical Low-Income Economy?," Working Papers 2011016, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Applied Economics.

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