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contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high … incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their income, and the latter seek to reduce it. The greater the inflation … empirical evidence, a rise in the inflation rate leads workers to supply more labor over the contract period, generating a …
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In this paper we incorporate the two most prominent approaches of inequality aversion, i.e. Fehr and Schmidt (1999) and Bolton and Ockenfels (2000) into an otherwise standard New Keynesian macro model and compare them with respect to their influence on the long-run effectiveness of monetary...
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reactiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate. In regard to a monetary union, the national unemployment multiplier in the …
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A growing body of empirical evidence shows that there exists a long-run positive tradeoff between inflation and real … between inflation and output. …
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hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables. …
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to match past inflation. However, the present paper proposes a much larger effect by using the job finding rate as the …
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We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from price decreases of equal magnitude. Price...
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The paper studies the effects of credible disinflation in the presence of real wage rigidity, comparing the Calvo and Rotemberg price setting mechanisms (the two popular variants of the New-Keynesian model). In both types of models, a credible, gradual disinflation is shown to lead to a delayed...
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show that people do care about fairness in their demand for redistribution. In this article, in the spirit of the new …
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In this paper we introduce and test the hypothesis that the relation between inflation and unemployment has been in … 1975 and 1980 after the first (or the second) oil price shock in autumn 1973. During the disin°ation period, inflation and … their favour and the Central Bank fighting against inflation. Since the wage and price setters did not fully believe in an …
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