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Keith Kuester

Economist

Phone: (215) 574-3415
Fax: (215) 574-4303
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Personal homepage: www.keithkuester.eu External link

Publications

  • "Real Price and Wage Rigidities with Matching Frictions," Journal of Monetary Economics, 2010, 57(4), p. 377-504.
  • "Debt Consolidation and Fiscal Stabilization of Deep Recessions," with Giancarlo Corsetti, Andrew Meier and Gernot J. Mueller, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2010, May, forthcoming.
  • "The Role of Labor Markets for Euro Area Monetary Policy," with Kai Christoffel and Tobias Linzert, European Economic Review, November 2009, 53(8). p. 908-936.
  • "Insurance Policies for Monetary Policy for the Euro Area," with V. Wieland, Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming. (Pre-publication version: Working Paper 08-29, May 2008. PDF)
  • "The Elasticity of the Unemployment Rate with Respect to Benefits," with Kai Christoffel, Economics Letters, February 2009, 102(2), p. 102-105.
  • "Resuscitating the Wage Channel in Models with Unemployment Fluctuations," External link with K. Christoffel, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55(5), p. 865-887.
  • "Is the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Flat?," with G. Müller and S. Stölting, Economics Letters, April 2009, 103(1), p. 39-41.
  • "Value-at-Risk Prediction: A Comparison of Alternative Strategies," External link with S. Mittnik and M. Paolella, Journal of Financial Econometrics, 2006, 4(1), p. 53-89.
  • "Optimal Monetary Policy Rules for the Euro Area," External link with A. Dieppe and P. McAdam, Journal of Common Market Studies, 2005, 43(3), p. 507-537.

Working Papers

  • "Inflation Dynamics with Labour Market Matching: Assessing Alternative Specifications," with Kai Christoffel, James Costain, Gregory de Walque, Tobias Linzert, Stephen Millard, and Olivier Pierrard, Working Paper 09-6, March 2009. PDF
  • "The Role of Labor Markets for Euro Area Monetary Policy," with Kai Christoffel and Tobias Linzert, Working Paper 09-1, January 2009. PDF
  • "The (Un)importance of Unemployment Fluctuations for the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles," with Philip Jung, Working Paper 08-31/R, April 2009. PDF
  • "Insurance Policies for Monetary Policy in the Euro Area," with Volker Wieland, Working Paper 08-29, May 2008. PDF
  • "The Elasticity of the Unemployment Rate with Respect to Benefits," with Kai Christoffel, Working Paper 08-15, August 2008. PDF
  • "The (Un)Importance of Unemployment Fluctuations for Welfare," with P. Jung, mimeo.
  • "Is the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Flat?," with G. Müller and S. Stölting, ECB Working Paper 809, September 2007. PDF External link
  • "Real Price and Wage Rigidities in a Model with Matching Frictions." ECB Working Paper 720, February 2007. PDF External link
  • "Identifying the Role of Labor Markets for Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model," with K. Christoffel and T. Linzert. ECB Working Paper 635, June 2006. PDF External link

Research Interests

  • Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
  • Labor Economics
  • Applied Macroeconomics