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This paper documents, for the first time in a systematic manner, the link between labor cost and price inflation in the euro area. Using country and sector quarterly data over the period 1985Q1-2018Q1 we find a strong link between labor cost and price inflation in the four major economies of the...
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growth and provides comparable analyses on wage developments in the euro area as a whole and in individual EU countries. The …. These are derived based on a comprehensive real-time forecast evaluation exercise …
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In the immediate wake of the Great Recession we didn't see the disinflation that most models predicted and, subsequently, we didn't see the inflation they predicted. We show that these puzzles disappear in a Vector Autoregressive model that properly accounts for domestic and global factors. Such...
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growth and provides comparable analyses on wage developments in the euro area as a whole and in individual EU countries. The …. These are derived based on a comprehensive real-time forecast evaluation exercise …
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After 2012, inflation has been unexpectedly low across much of the developed world and economists speak of a “missing inflation” puzzle, namely inflation was expected to be higher on the back of an ongoing recovery. This paper investigates the causes and consequences of low inflation in the...
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in a forecaster's toolkit. We base these conclusions on an extensive forecast evaluation over 1994 - 2018, an …
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price stability is shown to provide flexibility to contribute to the achievement of the EU’s full employment objective …
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The digitalisation workstream report analyses the degree of digital adoption across the euro area and EU countries and … of digital adoption differs across the euro area/EU, implying heterogeneous impacts, with most EU economies currently …. The pandemic has accelerated the use of teleworking: roughly every third job in the euro area/EU is teleworkable, although …
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