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In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
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of the two. We compare the accounting definition of deficit with the economic definition which takes inflation into …
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welfare, since it often reduces the union’s utility. In particular, we show that an inflation-neutral union will never find it …
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correlation between inflation and output. Furthermore, this result is robust to parameter values and specification of the … inflation equation. …
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This paper assesses the contribution of the European Central Bank (ECB) to Germany’s ongoing economic crisis, a vicious circle of decline in which the country has become stuck since the early 1990s. It is argued that the ECB continues the Bundesbank tradition of asymmetric policymaking: the...
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the widely held interpretation of the ECB as an inflation targeter—and a rather soft one, too—it is argued that the key … and inflation persistence that owes to the ECB’s failure to internalize the euro area’s fiscal regime. This raises the … question as to whether inflation targeting would have led to better results, or could do so in future. …
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central bank can prevent or fix liquidity traps by appending to its inflation-targeting monetary policy with a prioritized …
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'prudence'. It provides an alternative explanation for the positive relation between the level and variability of inflation …, both across countries and over time. In particular, the model predicts that high (low) inflation tends to be more variable …
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The paper presents a structural model framework for a small open economy. The model, based on optimising households and firms, has been calibrated on Czech macroeconomic data in order to develop an analytic framework suitable for analysing key policy questions related to the Czech Republic’s...
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An empirical link between inflation and price dispersion has been well established in goods and services markets – both …. Specifically, we examine the link between inflation and price dispersion in an empirical setting patently lacking the market … inflation-dispersion link in goods and services markets with a matched panel of equity market prices. Surprisingly, we find that …
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