a special focus on persistence of real wages,wage and price inflation. The analysis is conducted within a structural …, as well as the cointegrating properties of theestimated system. Overall, in the long run, wage and price inflation emerge …

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 …

countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the euro area. We start off by demonstrating that the degree of … synchronization of the business cycles of CEE countries and their main trade partners from the euro area has increased in recent years …. We next show that the cyclical fluctuations of GDP in CEE countries are strongly influenced by pro-cyclical movements of …

, consumption, investment and unemployment)has a distinct dynamic from disagreement about nominal variables(inflation and interest … series. Countryby-country regressions for inflation and interest... …

which induce smooth inflation also dampen the adjustment of wages in response to shocks. In the search and matching … Phillips curve is that inflation is not only driven by an output gap but also by an employment gap – a feature usually …

All else equal, higher wages translate into higher inflation. More rigid wages imply a weaker response of inflation to …

Is inflation persistence in the new EU Member States (NMS) comparable to that in the euro area countries? We argue that … show that due to frequent breaks in inflation time series in the NMS, parametric statistical measures assuming a constant …-varying mean leads to the reversal of this result and suggests similar or lower inflation persistence for the NMS compared to euro …