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Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, And Unemployment, Pascal Michaillat, Emmanuel Saez
Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, And Unemployment, Pascal Michaillat, Emmanuel Saez
Upjohn Institute Working Papers
This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman (1971) general disequilibrium model but replaces the disequilibrium framework on the labor and product markets by a matching framework. On the product and labor markets, both price and tightness adjust to equalize supply and demand. There is one more variable than equilibrium condition on each market, so we consider various price mechanisms to close the model, from completely flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism: higher aggregate demand raises the probability that firms …