We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU … is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices …

which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model …

monetary policy usually affects both inflation and unemployment, even when all structural parameters of the economy and of … suggests that the switch to a monetary union is likely to make labor uur unions more aggressive, increasing unemployment … features, such as the degree of centralization of wage bargaining, labour unions' inflation aversion and the degree of …

by governments concerned with the costs of inflation and unemployment, as well as with redistribution to particular …, or of central bank conservativeness are associated with lower unemployment and inflation. However the forward shifting of … changes in either labour taxes or in unemployment benefits to labours costs is larger the higher are those institutional …

We extend the `rational-partisan' model of inflation to allow for the effects of unemployment persistence on the … dynamics of inflation. We combine this model with the `exchange-rate-regime' model of inflation and examine the experience of … the United Kingdom. Outside the fixed exchange rate regime of Bretton Woods, persistently high inflation can be attributed …

) triggers two opposite effects on real wages, unemployment and inflation. The decrease in the number of unions reduces the … competition effect’ raises real wages, unemployment and inflation. But the decrease in the number of unions also strengthens the …, unemployment and inflation. The interaction between those two effects produces a Calmfors-Driffill type relation between real wages …

Central banks throughout the world predict inflation with new-Keynesian models where, after a shock, the unemployment …

natural rate of unemployment. In addition, because of differential inflation across countries, real exchange rates become …

has been a worsening in the trade-off between unemployment and inflation. The poor unemployment/inflation trade-off is due … to the neglect of skill training and education (causing skill shortages) and to the build-up of long-term unemployment … (which does little to restrain inflation). …