Arbeitspapier
Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Labour Market Adjustment under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates
The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the value to a firm of waiting to adjust labour when the firms revenues in domestic currency are stochastic and adjustment costs are sunk. The simulations reject the null hypothesis that all exchange rate regimes obey common employment adjustment thresholds.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 779
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Foreign Exchange
Labor Demand
- Subject
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real option theory
uncertainty
working time
employment
labour demand
exchange rates.
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Chen, Yu-Fu
Funke, Michael
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2002
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Chen, Yu-Fu
- Funke, Michael
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2002