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 …

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

consumer price inflation rate. …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth? describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and …

chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of … and real sides of the economy are symbiotic. In the light of the significant and robust long-run inflation …

. Two periods are distinguished: the period of inflation rise from 1970 to 1981, which coincides with an important squeeze …

sensitivity of import prices has not fallen since 1999. We also point out a significant role played by the inflation in the … inflation environment. Overall, our findings support the view that the extent of pass-through is comprised of both macro- and …

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