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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162920
. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyze the effects on inflation … of both having a quantitative target, and of hitting a declared target; we also consider effects on output volatility … determinants of inflation (such as fiscal policy, the business cycle, and openness to international trade), and the endogeneity of …
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model of inflation determination estimated on the Czech data.We characterize the estimated components of CPI, WPI and import …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with … deterministically varying coefficients and find that there is a profound difference in the responses of unemployment and inflation to …
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All else equal, higher wages translate into higher inflation. More rigid wages imply a weaker response of inflation to … paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a …
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Banks typically determine their capital levels by separately analysing credit and interest rate risk, but the interaction between the two is significant and potentially complex. We develop an integrated economic capital model for a banking book where all exposures are held to maturity. Our...
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In order to obtain a better understanding of the transmission channels for monetary policy, this paper assesses the importance of the interest rate and credit channels on business fixed investment in Germany. Our unbalanced panel of financial statements contains 44,345 firm/year observations for...
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This paper examines possible explanations for observed differences in the transmission of euro area monetary policy in central bank large-scale macroeconomic models. In particular it considers the extent to which these differences are due to differences in the underlying economies or (possibly...
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