% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw18149, title = "Testing for Keynesian Labor Demand", author = "Bils, Mark and Klenow, Peter J and Malin, Benjamin A", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "18149", year = "2012", month = "June", doi = {10.3386/w18149}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w18149", abstract = {According to the textbook Keynesian model, short-run demand for labor is sensitive to the demand for goods. In this view, sellers deviate from setting the marginal product of labor proportional to the real wage, instead enduring or choosing lower price markups when demand for goods is high. We test this prediction across U.S. industries in the two decades up through the Great Recession. To identify movements in goods demand, we exploit how durability varies across 70 categories of consumption and investment. We also take into account the flexibility of prices and capital-intensity of production across goods. We find evidence in support of Keynesian Labor Demand.}, }