Animal spirits, investment and unemployment: An old Keynesian view of the Great Recession

This paper develops a DSGE model with investment and capital accumulation build along demand-driven explanations of the Great Recession. Specifically, following Farmer (2013), I set forth a search framework in which households decide about consumption while firms decide about recruiting effort as we...

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Main Author: Marco Guerrazzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-09-01
Series:EconomiA
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758015000351