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A note on labor share, price markup and monetary policy

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This paper extends Kaplan and Zoch’s (2020) insight that the total labor share is neither solely nor inversely determined by the price markup in a medium scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with nondurables and durables. Our calibration results show that when monetary policy shocks and markup shocks are set to be positively (negatively) correlated, monetary contraction increases (decreases) total labor share and price markup. The total labor share is countercyclical (procyclical) conditional on a monetary policy shock.

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  • Chu, Shiou-Yen, 2020. "A note on labor share, price markup and monetary policy," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:192:y:2020:i:c:s0165176520301300
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109169
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    Keywords

    Labor share; Monetary policy; DSGE models;
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    JEL classification:

    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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