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National prices and wage setting in a currency union
Sánchez, Marcelo - European Central Bank - 2009
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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Labor market institutions and the business cycle Unemployment rigidities vs. real wage rigidities
Abbritti, Mirko; Weber, Sebastian - European Central Bank - 2010
This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476128
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Involuntary unemployment and the business cycle
Christiano, Lawrence; Trabandt, Mathias; Walentin, Karl - European Central Bank - 2010
We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people ….e., unemployment is ‘involuntary’). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple New Keynesian framework with no … capital and use the resulting model to discuss the concept of the ‘non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment’. We then …
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optimal monetary Policy in a new keynesian model with habits in consumption
Leith, Campbell; Moldovan, Ioana; Rossi, Raffaele - European Central Bank - 2009
While consumption habits have been utilised as a means of generating a hump shapedoutput response to monetary policy shocks in sticky-price New Keynesian economies,there is relatively little analysis of the impact of habits (particularly, external habits) onoptimal policy. In this paper we...
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Background studies for the ECB's evaluation of its monetary policy strategy
Issing, Otmar (contributor) - European Central Bank - 2003
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The role of money : money and monetary policy in the twenty-first century
Beyer, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
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Global corporate bond issuance: what role for US quantitative easing?
Lo Duca, Marco; Nicoletti, Giulio; Vidal Martinez, Ariadna - European Central Bank - 2014
The paper investigates the impact of US quantitative easing (QE) on global non-financial corporate bond issuance. It distinguishes between two QE instruments, MBS/GSE debt and Treasury bonds, and disentangles between two channels of transmission of QE to global bond markets, namely flow effects...
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Monetary Policy Shocks and Portfolio Choice
Fratzscher, Marcel; Saborowski, Christian; Straub, Roland - European Central Bank - 2009
The paper shows that monetary policy shocks exert a substantial effect on the size and composition of capital flows and the trade balance for the United States, with a 100 basis point easing raising net capital inflows and lowering the trade balance by 1% of GDP, and explaining about 20-25% of...
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