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Existing work on wage bargaining (as exemplified by Cukierman and Lippi, 2001) typicallypredicts more aggressive wage setting under monetary union. This insight has not beenconfirmed by the EMU experience, which has been characterised by wage moderation,thereby eliciting criticism from Posen and...
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Existing work on wage bargaining (as exemplified by Cukierman and Lippi, 2001) typically predicts more aggressive wage setting under monetary union. This insight has not been confirmed by the EMU experience, which has been characterised by wage moderation, thereby eliciting criticism from Posen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002814
We analyse the effects of money growth within a standard New Keynesian framework and show that the interaction between staggered nominal contracts and money growth leads to a long-run trade-off between output and money growth. We explore the microeconomic mechanisms that lead to this trade-off,...
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expansion has added to inflationary pressure, and monetary policy has been constrained in tackling inflation as a result of …
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impact of energy price changes on overall inflation in the future. For instance, the reaction of HICP inflation to energy …
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impact of energy price changes on overall inflation in the future. For instance, the reaction of HICP inflation to energy …
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qualitative and quantitative information on subsequent inflation. The usefulness of monetary analysis is contrasted to weaknesses … in modeling monetary policy and inflation with respectively short-term interest rates and real activity measures. The … analysis sheds light on the recent change in inflation volatility and persistence as well as on the Phillips curve flattening …
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situation poses to price stability. We propose to regard the central banker as a risk manager who aims to contain inflation …
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the Generalized Dynamic Factor model to develop a set of core inflation indicators that, combining national data with area …
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interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …
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