This paper uses a two-country, sticky-price model with non-atomistic wage setters to study the role of collective wage bargaining in the propagation of monetary shocks. I find that the welfare transmissions of a monetary expansion are reinforced by different labor market structures....

This work analyses the relationship among wage setters, Central Bank conservatism and economic performance. The main findings are that we can not confirm the so called Calmfors-Driffill effect. Key parameter is the elasticity of substitution between labor types, or , which affects the unions'...