Eurosclerosis and international business Cycles

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cook, David; Xu, Juanyi
• 署名单位: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.10.009
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 54-67
• 关键词: Cross-country comovement; firing costs; Frictional unemployment

摘要

This paper incorporates search frictions with endogenous job creation and destruction into a two country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to explain two macroeconomic facts. First, since the 1980s, European unemployment rates have risen substantially above USA levels. Second, the European business cycle has lagged the USA business cycle during the period of the Great Moderation. In the model, more generous unemployment benefits and greater employment protection (manifested as firing costs) can endogenously generate higher unemployment. These same policies will also create labor market frictions which slow the response of the economy to business cycle conditions. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.