Monetary Policy Rules in a Search Model of the Labor Market

Number: 
221
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E52, E58, E31
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper studies the performance, in terms of volatility and welfare, of different monetary policy rules in an economy with two market frictions. We consider a financial friction that highlights the credit channel as the monetary transmission mechanism