Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-24DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2025.103747
Conny Olovsson , Karl Walentin , Andreas Westermark
International immigration flows are large, volatile, and increasing. We document the dynamic implications of immigration, and account for the differential unemployment and labor force participation rates between immigrants and natives. To quantify the effects of immigration, we use Swedish population registry data and productivity estimates from a matched employer–employee dataset. A refugee (economic) immigration shock yields large initial negative (positive but delayed) effects on GDP per capita and employment rates, substantially larger than, but with the same sign as the corresponding steady state effects. This reflects the empirical fact that labor market integration is a gradual process over many years.
国际移民流动量大、不稳定且不断增加。我们记录了移民的动态影响,并解释了移民和本地人之间不同的失业率和劳动力参与率。为了量化移民的影响,我们使用了瑞典人口登记数据和来自匹配的雇主-雇员数据集的生产率估计值。难民(经济)移民冲击对人均 GDP 和就业率产生了巨大的初始负(正但延迟)效应,大大高于相应的稳态效应,但符号相同。这反映了劳动力市场一体化是一个多年的渐进过程这一经验事实。
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2025.103734
Nicolò Gnocato
Does monetary policy face a trade-off between stabilizing inflation and unemployment as soaring energy prices hit the unemployed harder than the employed? Data from the euro-area Consumer Expectations Survey show that job losses not only force workers to lower their consumption but also to devote a higher proportion of it to energy. I incorporate this evidence into a tractable heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model with labor market frictions, where energy acts as both a complementary input in production and a non-homothetic consumption good. Unemployment forces workers to consume less due to imperfect insurance and, since preferences are non-homothetic, to allocate a larger consumption share to energy. The heterogeneous exposure of the labor force to rising energy prices induces an endogenous trade-off for monetary policy: the optimal response involves partly accommodating inflation to limit the increase in unemployment and, hence, prevent workers from becoming more exposed to the shock.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2025.103750
Seunghoon Na , Donghoon Yoo
We incorporate diagnostic expectations (DE) into small open economy (SOE) models to offer novel insights into business cycles, especially in emerging countries. DE induce overreactions in domestic absorption, leading to countercyclical external balances and endogenous boom-bust cycles driven by surprises rooted in distant memory. This framework offers a cognitive alternative to permanent income shock in conventional SOE models under rational expectations (RE). Using Argentine macro-international data, we estimate a quantitative SOE-RBC model with DE that captures the volatility and cyclicality specific to emerging countries and identifies diagnosticity levels consistent with prior research, and reduces reliance on trend-driven TFP shocks. Our findings highlight DE as an empirically plausible mechanism, enriching the literature by demonstrating how imperfect, memory-based expectations influence macroeconomic dynamics in an open economy context.
我们将诊断性预期(DE)纳入小型开放经济(SOE)模型,为商业周期,尤其是新兴国家的商业周期提供了新的见解。诊断性预期会引起国内吸收的过度反应,导致反周期的外部收支平衡,以及由根植于遥远记忆的意外所驱动的内生繁荣-萧条周期。这一框架为理性预期(RE)下的传统国有企业模型中的永久性收入冲击提供了一种认知替代方案。利用阿根廷的宏观国际数据,我们估算了一个带有 DE 的定量国有企业-RBC 模型,该模型捕捉了新兴国家特有的波动性和周期性,确定了与先前研究一致的诊断水平,并减少了对趋势驱动的全要素生产率冲击的依赖。我们的研究结果凸显了 DE 这一经验上合理的机制,通过展示不完美的、基于记忆的预期如何在开放经济背景下影响宏观经济动态,丰富了相关文献。
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103726
Stéphane Auray , Michael B. Devereux , Aurélien Eyquem
Countries have an incentive to use tariffs to gain advantage over trade partners, but an optimal tariff must weigh the benefits of an improved terms of trade against the costs that the tariff imposes on the domestic economy. In the presence of monopoly distortions and nominal rigidities, the stance of monetary policy may have a large effect on the evaluation of these costs. In a global economy where all countries set tariffs unilaterally in a ‘trade war’, the final outcome can differ dramatically depending on different monetary policy rules. We set out a model of a trade war in a New Keynesian open-economy model. For any one country, a tariff improves the terms of trade but is costly due to its deflationary effect on the domestic economy. A monetary rule which targets the CPI or stabilizes the nominal exchange rate exacerbates these latter costs, and leads to lower equilibrium tariff rates in a trade war. Furthermore, an optimally delegated monetary rule can in fact completely eliminate a trade war.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-12-26DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103729
Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia
Upon arrival of macroeconomic news, agents update their beliefs about the long-run fundamentals of the economy. I show that signals about agents’ expectations, proxied by professional forecasters’ outlook revisions, convey sufficient information to identify the effects of expected future technological changes, or news shocks. The approach benefits from not depending on an empirical technology measure or on assumptions about common trends and the timing of the technological change. News shocks cause a strong anticipation effect in investment, while there is less evidence of consumption smoothing—in line with news-driven business cycle models with financial frictions.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2025.103732
Noah Kwicklis
When fiscal policy is active and monetary policy is passive in a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian (HANK) model, deficit-financed transfers to low-asset households lead to similar cumulative inflation but greater increases in real output than transfers to wealthier households. I use the inverse of the “Phillips multiplier”, the price level sacrifice ratio, to quantify this dynamic. Household heterogeneity and targeted policy change the timing of output gaps, making this consistent with the Phillips Curve and rendering conventional sacrifice ratio intuition misleading for assessing the inflation/output trade-off between policies.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103719
Richard Blundell , Eric French
This discussion comments on “Singles, Couples, Time-Averaging, and Taxation” by Hans Holter, Lars Ljungqvist, Thomas Sargent, and Serhiy Stepanchuk. This work represents an exciting new agenda, combining recent findings in the dynamic micro labor supply and retirement literature with key features of the macro environment by including general equilibrium feedback and a government budget constraint. We point to some areas where the specification could be improved but these do not detract from the key insights in this paper and the significant steps it makes toward building a coherent micro and macro framework for research on labor supply and taxation.
本次讨论是对Hans Holter, Lars Ljungqvist, Thomas Sargent和Serhiy Stepanchuk的《单身,夫妻,时间平均和税收》的评论。这项工作代表了一个令人兴奋的新议程,将动态微观劳动力供给和退休文献的最新发现与宏观环境的关键特征结合起来,包括一般均衡反馈和政府预算约束。我们指出了规范可以改进的一些领域,但这些并没有减损本文的关键见解,也没有减损本文为研究劳动力供给和税收建立连贯的微观和宏观框架所采取的重要步骤。
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2025.103731
Alessandra Fogli
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-11-12DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103711
Katarína Borovičková, Claudia Macaluso
We investigate different wage growth rates over the life cycle for poor and rich workers, and how they relate to the frequency and quality of job-to-job transitions. Using the universe of labor market histories for Austrian workers born in 1960–62 to, we show that workers who are at the bottom of the earnings distribution have higher employer-to-employer transition rates than richer workers throughout their life. Nevertheless, they work for worse- and worse-paying firms as they age and are more likely to undergo unemployment spells at all ages. We propose a structural framework with learning by doing and heterogeneity along five dimensions: initial level of human capital, learning ability, and job separation propensity on the worker side, and productivity level and quality of offered learning opportunities on the employer side. Our model replicates the wage gap and the difference in the frequency of labor market transitions we document in the data, and allows us to investigate several dimensions of heterogeneity in the quality of labor market transitions. We find that poor workers’ lackluster wage growth stems from a combination of deteriorating human capital, employment in low-productivity jobs, and scarce on-the-job learning opportunities. We then evaluate a policy which matches low-wage workers to high-learning employers. We find that ameliorating the learning opportunities early in a worker’s career has a non-negligible impact on lifetime earnings. The gains from matching with a better employer greatly increase with job stability, as lower separation rates limit human capital depreciation and improve the odds of matching with high-productivity employers in the future.
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