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Inflation dynamics with labour market matching: assessing alternative specifications

Christoffel, Kai; Costain, James S.; De Walque, Gregory; … - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper reviews recent approaches to modeling the labour market and assessestheir implications for ination dynamics through both their e¤ect on marginalcost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, weconsider the following modeling setups: right-to-manage...

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Downward wage rigidity and optimal steady-state inflation

Fagan, Gabriel; Messina, Julián - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper examines the impact of downward wage rigidity (nominal and real) onoptimal steady-state inflation. For this … andFinland). The calibrated heterogeneous agent models are then solved for differentsteady state rates of inflation to derive …

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Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the euro area

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Paesani, Paolo; Onorante, Luca - European Central Bank - 2010

This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the … change associated with the start of EMU in 1999. The main findings are as follows. Steadystate inflation and inflation … can achieve lower inflation uncertainty by lowering the inflation rate. JEL Classification: E31, E52, C22 …

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The reform and implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact

Morris, Richard; Ongena, Hedwig; Schuknecht, Ludger - European Central Bank - 2006

Fiscal rules are instrumental for restraining deficit and spending biases in euro area Member States that could threaten the smooth functioning of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Ideally, fiscal rules should combine characteristics such as sufficient flexibility to allow for appropriate...

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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2008

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...

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