Unemployment fluctuations with staggered nash wage bargaining

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-86

  Gertler, Mark ^a   Trigari, Antonella ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; CALIBRATION; LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE;

EID: 62749203638     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597302     Document Type: Article

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