Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Labour Market Adjustment under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates

Yu-Fu Chen and Michael Funke

Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers from Hamburg University, Department of Economics

Abstract: 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 of a firm of waiting to adjust labour when the firm´s revenues in domestic currency are stochastic and adjustment costs are sunk. The simulations reject the null hypothesis that all exchange rate regimes obey common emploment adjustment thresholds.

Keywords: Real Option Theory; Uncertainty; Working Time; Employment; Labour Demand; Exchange Rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 E24 F31 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-03
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Working Paper: Exchange rate uncertainty and labour market adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates (2004)
Working Paper: Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Labour Market Adjustment under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates (2002)
Working Paper: Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Labour Market Adjustment under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates (2002)
Working Paper: Exchange rate uncertainty and labour market adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates (2002)
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