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This paper deals with the design of optimal monetary policy and with the interaction between the optimal degrees of wage indexation and foreign exchange intervention. The model is governed by the characteristics of the stochastic shocks which affect the economy and by the information set that...
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The analysis of this paper stresses the interdependence between wage indexation on the one hand, and exchange market intervention on the other,as tools of'macroeconomic stabilization policy in a small open economy subject to stochastic disturbances. It is shown how the choice of eitherpolicy...
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hypotheses analyzed are: (i) the supply-side effects associated with an inflation decline; (ii) the perception that the exchange …
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This paper investigates the effects of wage indexation on the time-consistent level of inflation. Departing from … previous work on time-consistent policy, we study a structural model of the economy. Indexation reduces the cost of inflation … raise inflation but also to raise welfare: the loss from higher inflation is outweighed by the gain from greater protection …
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Our paper seeks to provide an explanation for why the prevalence of COLA provisions and their characteristics vary widely across U.S. industries. We develop models of optimal risk sharing between a firm and union that allows us to investigate the determinants of a number of characteristics of...
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ante wage indexation speeds up disinflation. With expost indexation the real wage automatically rises when the inflation …
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This paper develops a unified framework for the analysis of wage indexation and monetary policy in the presence of supply shocks. We first present simple formulae for the optimal wage indexation rule and for the optimal money supply rule. In order to set the stage for an evaluation of departures...
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reforms may cause jumps in inflation and the exchange rate through their impact on the government budget. In order to achieve … a sustainable reduction in inflation an exchange rate freeze or crawling peg is shown to require restrictions not only …-collapse inflation will exceed the rate prevailing before the freeze started …
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This paper provides a framework for evaluating how market participants' beliefs about foreign exchange target zones change as they learn about central bank intervention policy. In order to examine this behavior, we first generalize the standard target zone model to allow for intra-marginal...
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Patterns in domestic credit creation stemming from inconsistent fiscal policies have received widespread attention for aggravating speculative attacks on central bank foreign exchange reserves and contributing to the collapse of exchange rate regimes. This paper acknowledges the importance of...
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