2009-07-27

Working Paper 173

Nicolas Groshenny
Evaluating a monetary business cycle model with unemployment for the euro area

This paper estimates a medium-scale DSGE model with search unemployment by matching model and data spectra. Price mark-up shocks emerge as the main source of business-cycle fluctuations in the euro area. Key factors in the propagation of these disturbances are a high degree of inflation indexation and a persistent response of monetary policy to deviations from the inflation target.

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