9月23日周五经济系学术活动信息如下：

【主讲】 Jenny Xu，香港科技大学经济系助理教授

【主题】 解雇成本与国际商业周期

【时间】 2011-9-23（周五）14:30-16:00

【地点】 清华经管学院 伟伦楼503

【语言】 英文

【主办】 清华大学经济管理学院经济系

【Speaker】 Jenny Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

【Topic】 Firing Costs and International Business Cycles

【Time】 14:30-16:00, 2011-9-23, Friday

【Venue】 Weilun 503, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Organizer】Department of Economics Abstract The European business cycle has lagged the US business cycle during the period of the great moderation. This paper constructs a two country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to calculate how much of this lag is due to a sluggishness in job creation induced by high firing costs. The model features search based unemployment with endogenous job creation and destruction. In one of the economies, job destruction faces lump sum taxation. Potentially, the taxation of job destruction creates disincentives for creating jobs. In a calibrated business cycle model, the job destruction tax in one country: 1) increases the unemployment rate in that country; and 2) causes the business cycle in the high unemployment country to lag the low unemployment country.