This paper provides new survey evidence on firms' inflation expectations in the euro area. Building on the ECB's Survey … on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE), we introduce consistent measurement of inflation expectations across … firms' inflation expectations and show that firms disagree about future inflation more than professional forecasters but …

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 trade-off. Moreover, it analyzes whether the …

We study the link between expected inflation and wages using novel panel data from German firms and employees. We find … that pass-through - the percentage point change in wage growth given a one percentage point change in expected inflation … extensive margin, expected inflation has little effect on additional wage negotiations. …

Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour … additional dividends. The yearly charge counts for at least 4% of their value added. -- Eurozone ; competitiveness ; non …

sensitivity of import prices has not fallen since 1999. We also point out a significant role played by the inflation in the … Eurozone, as the responsiveness of import prices to exchange rate fluctuations tends to decline in a low and more stable … inflation environment. Overall, our findings support the view that the extent of pass-through is comprised of both macro- and …

We implement a survey-based randomized information treatment that generates independent variation in the inflation … expectations and the uncertainty about future inflation of European households. This variation allows us to assess how both first … and second moments of inflation expectations separately affect subsequent household decisions. We document several key …

inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is more than twice as large as that in the "flexible" countries. We … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …

and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries … inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the … volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …

inflation and measures welfare changes using the compensating variation and equivalent incomes in a cross-national comparative … perspective. The impact of inflation depends on good-specific price increases and budget shares. Budget shares for necessities (e … necessities has resulted in higher inflation in poorer countries. Counter to the media narrative, the distributional impact is …