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wages and prices to past inflation fails along several of these dimensions …) a persistent and hump-shaped response of inflation to a monetary policy shock, (ii) a large and persistent response of … shock, (v) non-inertial responses of inflation to non-monetary shocks, and (vi) a negative unconditional autocorrelation of …
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Inflation dynamics have been difficult to explain over the last decade. This paper explores if a more comprehensive … treatment of globalization can help. CPI inflation has become more synchronized around the world since the 2008 crisis, but core … and wage inflation have become less synchronized. Global factors (including commodity prices, world slack, exchange rates …
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This paper investigates an economy in which there are short-term wage contracts that are re-negotiated under certain conditions. This paper determines the optimal frequency of wage re-negotiation and shows that it depends positively on measures of aggregate variability and Phillips curve slope....
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relationship between wages and prices, so wage inflation has become a much less important determinant of price inflation … has evolved to study inflation in Japan. Our key finding is that labor market dynamics shifted after 1998 so that … correlations between labor market tightness and wages weakened noticeably. This change was accompanied in a break in the …
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Nonlinearity is an important consideration in many problems of finance and economics, such as pricing securities, computing equilibrium, and conducting structural estimations. We extend the transform analysis in Duffie, Pan, and Singleton (2000) by providing analytical treatment of a general...
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higher marginal rate of substitution of current wages for future wages. Incidentally, a survey of several hundred …
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I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...
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significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …
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This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others...
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