JOINT VIENNA MACROECONOMICS SEMINAR	INVITATION
The Joint Vienna Institute and the Department of Economics and Finance at the Institute for Advanced Studies cordially invite you to the following Joint Vienna Macroeconomics Seminar Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Institute for Advanced Studies Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna Lecture Room E02, ground floor 5:00 pm Pontus Rendahl University of Cambridge Unemployment (Fears) and Deflationary Spirals Abstract: The interaction of incomplete markets and sticky nominal wages is shown to magnify business cycles even though these two features – in isolation – dampen them. During recessions, fears of unemployment stir up precautionary sentiments which induces agents to save more. The additional savings may be used as investments in both a productive asset (equity) and an unproductive asset (money). But even a small rise in money demand has important consequences. The desire to hold money puts deflationary pressure on the economy, which, provided that nominal wages are sticky, increases wage costs and reduces firm profits. Lower profits repress the desire to save in equity, which increases (the fear of) unemployment, and so on. This is a powerful mechanism which causes the model to behave differently from both its complete markets version, and a version with incomplete markets but without aggregate uncertainty. In contrast to previous results in the literature, agents uniformly prefer non - trivial levels of unemployment insurance. Paper jointly with Wouter Den Haan and Markus Riegler We are looking forward to seeing you! Institute for Advanced Studies Department of Economics and Finance Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43 1 599 91 145 e-Mail: economics@ihs.ac.at http://economics.ihs.ac.at		LINKS DIRECTIONS TO IHS on Google maps JOINT VIENNA MACRO SEMINAR on Google calendar ECONOMICS SEMINARS IN VIENNA on Google calendar IHS Department of Economics and Finance Institute for Advanced Studies @IHS_Vienna
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