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 latter seek to reduce it. The greater the inflation rate …, a rise in the inflation rate leads workers to supply more labor over the contract period, generating a significant …

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 welfaremaximizing central bank should adopt flexible headline inflation targeting - a target based on headline …

not provide a strong argument against low inflation targets. -- downward nominal wage rigidity ; wage stickiness ; wage …

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … which "observed" inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our … persistence of the aggregate inflation. -- aggregation ; large dynamic panels ; long memory ; weak and strong cross section …

constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … 1995 would have led to an annual increase in inflation of 2.5 percentage points if it had not been largely offset by …

consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the inflation persistence that is absent in the … account, the results change dramatically, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Real wage rigidities imply neither inflation … inflation target of the monetary policy. -- Disinflation ; sticky prices ; real wage rigidities ; nonlinearities …

nominal wages by less than the inflation rate, but seldom cut nominal wages, in contrast to the predictions of the standard … individual needs to compare the inflation rate to the wage change before it becomes clear whether the change increases or … wage achieved through increasing the nominal wage by less than the inflation rate. Although emotions may benefit individual …