Labor markets and monetary policy: A new keynesian model with unemployment

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-30

  Blanchard, Olivier ^a,b   Galí, Jordi ^c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d NBER   (Spain)

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EID: 85017171171     PISSN: 19457707     EISSN: 19457715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mac.2.2.1     Document Type: Article

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