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Prices, Wages, and Employment in the U.S. Economy : A Traditional Model and Tests of Some Alternatives
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Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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In this paper, we outline the cost minimizing behavior of oligopoly firms and the price adjustment process in the labor market which underlie the traditional formulation of aggregate wage-price behavior in the U.S., and show that resulting equations applied to U.S. data remain stable before and after the significant change in the monetary policy rule that had taken place in 1979. This result contradicts the prediction of the Lucas critique applied to this context that, in response to a major change of the monetary policy rule, the Phillips curve and the price setting equation of firms would have undergone significant changes. We test several competing hypotheses for the price level determination, including the possibility that more direct effect of the money supply should be relevant, and show that our formulation dominates alternatives in non- nested tests. Finally, we present evidence that the nature of capital is putty-clay rather than fully malleable, together with a demand function for labor based on this recognition. In the process of these inquiries, we contrast our formulation with that proposed by Layard and Nickell in England.

Business cycles : theory and evidence.
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ISBN: 0631185674 Year: 1993 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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New perspectives on business cycles : an analysis of inequality and heterogeneity.
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ISBN: 1852788003 Year: 1993 Publisher: Aldershot Edward Elgar

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The art of smooth pasting
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ISBN: 9783718653843 3718653842 9781315870786 9781317973713 9781317973720 9781317973737 9780415269377 0415269377 Year: 1993 Volume: 55 Publisher: London : Routledge,


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Climat d'hier à demain
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ISBN: 2271050669 9782271050663 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris: CNRS,

Elk Lake, Minnesota : evidence for rapid climate change in the north-central United States
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ISBN: 0813722764 9780813722764 Year: 1993 Publisher: Boulder : Geological Society of America,


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The impact of climate change on the discharge on the River Rhine
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ISBN: 9068091840 Year: 1993 Publisher: Utrecht Koninklijk Nederlands aardrijkskundig genootschap


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Labor Market Aspects of Industrial Restructuring in Canada
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ISBN: 146238224X 1455220256 1281602221 9786613782915 1455283703 Year: 1993 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This note examines recent developments in the Canadian labor market to provide a partial assessment of the magnitude and nature of industrial restructuring in Canada. The implications of industrial restructuring for the medium- and long-term prospects for the Canadian economy are examined. The evidence presented in this note suggests that the recent increases in labor productivity may represent a cyclical phenomenon rather than a permanent increase in the rate of growth of productivity.


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The Yield Curve and Real Activity
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ISBN: 1462367232 1455219177 1281083801 9786613774156 145526346X Year: 1993 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The financial press frequently suggest that the shape of yield curve reflects information about the prospects of the economy. This paper attempts to formalize the link between the yield curve and the real economic activity. A closed-form formula for the term structure of interest rates is derived. It is shown that the term structure embodies the market’s expectation about changes in the macroeconomic fundamental--the growth in real aggregate output of the economy. The paper then documents the use of bond market data for predicting GDP growth in the G-7 industrial countries. The results suggest that a simple measure of the slope of the yield curve, namely the yield spread, serves as a good predictor of future economic growth. The out-of-sample forecasting performance of the yield spread compares favorably with that of the alternative stock price-based model and a univariate time series (ARMA) model. One practical implication is that it may be useful to add some measure of the term structure to the list of.

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