Bei Vorliegen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne erschwert niedrige Inflation Reallohnanpassungen und führt so … Auswirkungen bei sehr niedriger Inflation nicht zu vernachlässigen sind. Die Ergebnisse dieser Literatur sollten daher bei der … presence of downwardly rigid nominal wages, low inflation may lead to higher equilibrium unemployment by hindering real wage …

period. The workers' bargaining power in the hours negotiation affects both unemployment volatility and inflation persistence … cost determination. This set-up produces realistic labor market statistics together with inflation persistence …

employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …

In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating … stabilize price movements in the flexible price sector. Also, in the presence of financial frictions, stabilizing core inflation … frictions a welfare-maximizing central bank should adopt flexible headline inflation targeting – a target based on headline …

This paper provides a new explanation of why inflation is sluggish in response to aggregate demand shocks and why … rationale for a prolonged inverse relation between inflation and unemployment. The paper suggests that the interaction of … inflation persistence and unemployment persistence may offer a possible explanation of high and prolonged European unemployment. …

Real wages are a key determinant of marginal costs. The latter themselves are a driving force of inflation. We ask how … wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process. We model search and matching frictions in the labour market …

constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in …’ labour supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that the fall in unemployment since … 1995 would have led to an annual increase in inflation of 2.5 percentage points if it had not been largely offset by …

This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation for 10 of the euro area countries. The … combination of low wage inflation and high unemployment in Europe is usually attributed to a rise in the natural rate of … unemployment that may account for a changing pattern in the unemployment inflation tradeoff. Moreover, it analyzes whether the …