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Recent studies found evidence for nominal wage rigidity during periods of relatively high nominal GDP growth. It has been argued, however, that in an environment with low nominal GDP growth, when nominal wage cuts become customary, workers’ opposition to nominal cuts would erode and, hence,...
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not provide a strong argument against low inflation targets. …
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rates on domestic inflation, which may have contributed to differences in policy stances during the boom in commodity prices …
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Two extraordinary U.S. labor market developments facilitated the sharp disinflation in 2022-23 without raising the unemployment rate. First, pandemic-driven infection worries and social distancing intentions caused a sizable drag on labor force participation that began to reverse in the first...
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low-inflation anchor. The paper finds evidence of such a credibility effect: during `the EMS period' (flexibly dated …) German inflation enters into autoregressive inflation predictor schemes for each of the main EMS countries (Belgium, France …
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rates on domestic inflation, which may have contributed to differences in policy stances during the boom in commodity prices …, they cannot explain them all.<P>Réponse de l'inflation aux chocs récents : Les pays du G7 diffèrent-ils les uns des autres … certain nombre de différences dans l'impact estimé des prix à l'importation des produits de base et des taux de change sur l'inflation …
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Blanchard (2022) highlights in his analysis of near-term inflation pressures. The amenity-values gains associated with the …
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results suggest that DNWR may not provide a strong argument against the targeting of low inflation rates, as practiced by many …
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-pressure, matters both in the labor market and the market for goods in the determination of wage and price inflation. vVe consider from … wages are more flexible than prices with respect to their respective demand pressure terms and that price inflation … determination gives (somewhat) more weight to medium term inflation than does wage inflation. This implies as reduced form equation …
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A statistically significant relationship between the unemployment gap and inflation can be found for a clear majority … slack on inflation can often be dominated by other shocks, including imported inflation. The current Secretariat Phillips … curve specification assumes inflation expectations are anchored at the central bank’s target, although some experimentation …
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