This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on … on inflation volatility, which can also be rationalized by our theoretical model. …

and support from the West. We argue that East Germany is in trouble precisely because of the support it has received. This … underutilization, and unemployment arising from the decline of the tradable sector. …

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 …