Welfare-Theoretic Criterion and Labour Market Search
11 Pages Posted: 4 Oct 2005
Date Written: September 2005
Abstract
This paper extends the utility-based welfare criterion developed by Woodford (2003) to a model with labour market search. We show how the central banker's concern for inflation stabilization depends on the average steady-state durations of unemployment and job vacancy.
Keywords: Welfare, labour market search, sticky price, second-order approximation techniques
JEL Classification: D60, E24, E52
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