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1by LECHTHALER, WOLFGANG Published in Journal of money, credit and banking (01.12.2017)“...Trade liberalization can imply slow and long adjustment processes. Taking account of these adjustment processes can change the evaluation of trade policy,...”
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2by Lechthaler, Wolfgang Published in Economics letters (01.08.2016)“...This paper studies the effects of protectionism as a business cycle instrument. In normal times, protectionism reduces international trade, distorts production...”
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3by Lechthaler, Wolfgang Mileva, Mariya Published in International economic review (Philadelphia) (01.02.2021)“...We use a dynamic trade model with two sectors and two types of workers to analyze the optimal setting of income‐generating tariffs. We study dynamic and...”
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4“...The authors develop a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry...”
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5by Balleer, Almut Gehrke, Britta Lechthaler, Wolfgang Merkl, Christian Published in European economic review (01.05.2016)“...In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment...”
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6“...We analyze the implications of trend growth for optimal monetary policy in the presence of search and matching unemployment. We show that trend growth...”
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7by Lechthaler, Wolfgang Published in Bulletin of economic research (01.10.2013)“...ABSTRACT This paper analyses the effect of downwards wage rigidity on wage setting, wage compression and firm training. It is shown that downwards wage...”
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8“...By concentrating a stimulus on the domestic economy, Buy National clauses are argued to lead to higher fiscal multipliers. We show that this argument falls...”
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9“...Even though economists keep on emphasising the benefits of international trade, protectionism is on the rise in many industrialised countries. The authors...”
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10by Lechthaler, Wolfgang Published in Journal of institutional and theoretical economics (2011)“...In the setup of an overlapping-generations model with firm training, I analyze the consequences of a tax on capital income. A capital tax influences training...”
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11by ESTER FAIA WOLFGANG LECHTHALER CHRISTIAN MERKL Published in Journal of money, credit and banking (01.02.2014)“...We study optimal monetary policy and welfare properties of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with a labor selection process, labor turnover...”
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12by Faia, Ester Lechthaler, Wolfgang Merkl, Christian Published in Journal of economic dynamics & control (01.03.2013)“...Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and in New Keynesian models. This paper computes fiscal...”
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13“...Analyses of the effects of trade policies focus on comparisons of two different steady states, restricting the investigation to the long run. In order to...”
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14“...The integration of China’s huge workforce into the global trading system has had profound effects on economies worldwide. Trade with China has been shown to...”
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15by Gabriel J. Felbermayr Mario Larch Wolfgang Lechthaler Published in The Canadian journal of economics (01.12.2015)“...Recent theoretical literature studies how labour market reforms in one country can affect labour market outcomes in other countries, thereby rationalizing...”
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16by Larch, Mario Lechthaler, Wolfgang Published in International review of economics & finance (01.04.2013)“...Should governments only purchase domestic goods to increase welfare? And would government spending be higher if it was used for domestic goods only? Such...”
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17“...We build quadratic labor adjustment costs into an otherwise standard New Keynesian model of the business cycle and show that this increases output persistence...”
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18“...When the world economy was recently hit by a severe recession, governments all over the world reacted by initiating stimulus packages. Some countries (among...”
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19by Gabriel J. Felbermayr Mario Larch Wolfgang Lechthaler Published in American economic journal. Economic policy (01.02.2013)“...How do changes in labor market institutions, like more generous unemployment benefits in one country, affect labor market outcomes in other countries? We set...”
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20by Lechthaler, Wolfgang Merkl, Christian Snower, Dennis J Published in Journal of economic dynamics & control (2010)“...In this paper we propose a novel way to model the labor market in the context of a New-Keynesian general equilibrium model, incorporating labor market...”