Effect of monetary policy on output and employment considering frictional unemployment

Document Type : Original Article

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Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran

Abstract

Monetary policy is a tool through which central banks manage the supply of money to achieve their goals, and it is one of the key elements of macroeconomic management, and its effectiveness is an important issue in the analysis of economic policies. The usual goals of monetary policy are to achieve or maintain full employment, to achieve or maintain a high rate of economic growth, and to stabilize prices. For this purpose, in this research, the effects of this policy on production and employment, which have been calibrated for the Iranian economy by considering frictional unemployment in the form of a monetary general equilibrium model, have been investigated. The results show that the effect of monetary growth on employment and production in a steady state may be non-linear depending on the two parameters of labor supply elasticity and elasticity of vacancies in job matches, so that the lower the labor supply elasticity and elasticity of vacancies in job matches, it is more likely that monetary growth will have adverse effects on employment and production. Also, in the framework of the model, the negative relationship between the unemployment rate and vacancies is calculated, and with the increase of the Quarterly monetary growth rate from zero to 5%, the employment and production values in a steady state, they increase by about 0.4%. In addition, considering the transition dynamic, with the reduction of the monetary growth rate from the level of the benchmark case to the level of 2.5%, the equilibrium values of the variables will converge to their new equilibrium values after 2.5 years. Therefore, it is suggested that the central bank should pay attention to the effectiveness of monetary policy on production and employment in order to achieve macroeconomic goals in recession and boom. And since monetary growth is not always unfavorable for production and employment, the effects of this reduction on production should be taken into account in inflation reduction policies.

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Public Sector Economics Studies
Volume 3, Issue 4
December 2024
Pages 615-646

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History

  • Receive Date: 13 July 2024
  • Revise Date: 29 November 2024
  • Accept Date: 30 November 2024

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