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The Modigliani Puzzle Revisited: A Note

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  • Margarita Katsimi
  • Gylfi Zoega

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We estimate the relationship between investment and unemployment in order to explore whether the medium-term relationship emphasized by Franco Modigliani survived the recent Great Recession. Our results indicate that the relationship held up, both employment and investment fell although the estimated coefficient of investment is slightly smaller when the period 2000-2015 is added to the 1960-2000 period.

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  • Margarita Katsimi & Gylfi Zoega, 2017. "The Modigliani Puzzle Revisited: A Note," CESifo Working Paper Series 6833, CESifo.
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    Modigliani puzzle; investment; unemployment; Great Recession;
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    • J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
    • E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)

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