MASTER ETE 2009-2010 F. Langot
Each student group (less than 2 students) chooses one topic. One topic can be chosen only by one group.
Objective: to make a summary of the paper and to reproduce some results of the paper.
Topic 1.
Unemployment Fluctuations with Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining
Mark Gertler (New York University IGIER) and Antonella Trigari (Università Bocconi) http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/gertlerm/GTJPEaug8.pdf
Reproduce and explain the results reported in Table 3 p.21 Topic 2.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT VOLATILITY PUZZLE: IS WAGE STICKINESS THE ANSWER?
CHRISTOPHER A. PISSARIDES
Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, U.K.
and
IZA, Bonn and CEPR, London
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/pissarid/papers/WB_ECMA.pdf Reproduce and explain the results reported in Table 4 p.1365 Topic 3
Job matching and propagation
Shigeru Fujita and Garey Ramey, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 31 (2007) pp 3671–3698
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V85-4N3GNK0- 2/2/c8cf419debda22e6ef8735330b779615
Reproduce and explain the results reported in Figures 4, 6, 7 and 8.
Topic 4
Labor Markets and Monetary Policy: A New-Keynesian Model with Unemployment Olivier Blanchard and Jordi Gali
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=920959
Reproduce and explain the results reported in Table 1 p.42
Topic 5
Inflation Dynamics with Labour Market Matching: Assessing Alternative Specifications (2009),
Kai Christoffel, James Costain, Gregory de Walque, Tobias Linzert, Stephen Millard, and Olivier Pierrard,
http://www.keithkuester.eu/papers/wp09-6.pdf