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Sequential bargaining in a new-Keynesian model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage negotiation
De Walque, Gregory; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri; … - 2009
We consider a model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage bargaining where hours worked are negotiated every period. The workers' bargaining power in the hours negotiation affects both unemployment volatility and inflation persistence. The closer to zero this parameter, (i) the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824877
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The role of real wage rigidity and labor market frictions for unemployment and inflation dynamics
Christoffel, Kai (contributor); Linzert, Tobias (contributor) - 2005
In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions affect the transmission process of monetary policy. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003227218
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Asymmetric labor market institutions in the EMU and the volatility of inflation and unemployment differentials
Abbritti, Mirko; Müller, Andreas - 2012
How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536516
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SAFE to update inflation expectations? : new survey evidence on euro area firms
Baumann, Ursel; Ferrando, Annalisa; Georgarakos, Dimitris; … - 2024
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 countries and shed new light on the properties and causal...
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market : first results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect … and inflation volatility ; labor turnover costs ; unemployment benefits ; unemployment ; eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961662
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Some thoughts on macroeconomic fluctuations and the timing of labor market reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
In this paper, I analyze the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labor market in booms vs. recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and macroeconomic fine tuning. While the optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414121
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Uniform and nonuniform staggering of wage contracts
Danziger, Leif - 2010
This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and long contracts as well as long contracts concluded in different periods are strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983623
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Optimal price indices for targeting inflation under incomplete markets
Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a twosector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810538
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What measure of inflation should a developing country central bank target?
Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We analyze this result in the context of developing economies, where a large proportion of households are credit constrained...
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Does money illusion matter? : an experimental approach
Fehr, Ernst; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2000
Money illusion means that people behave differently when the same objective situation is represented in nominal terms rather than in real terms. This paper shows that seemingly innocuous differences in payoff representation cause pronounced differences in nominal price inertia indicating the...
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