find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity, which for rates of inflation lower than three percent is shown to …

An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … inflation to its reduced form determinants. These findings are attributed to the behaviour of wages following movements in …

and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …

money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal …

We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of … establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … United States economy and the long-run equilibrium properties are compared at low and high inflation. We find that, when the …

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 …