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values, the elasticities of wages, prices, taxes, and government transfers with respect to national labor supplies, as well …
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We answer the question posed by the title by specifying and estimating a simple dynamic model of prices, wages, and … product-market and labor-market shocks on prices and nominal wages and to quantify the sources of U.S. pandemic-era inflation …, most of the inflation surge that began in 2021 was the result of shocks to prices given wages. These shocks included sharp …
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In this paper we estimate the impacts of climate change on the allocation of time using econometric models that exploit plausibly exogenous variation in daily temperature over time within counties. We find large reductions in U.S. labor supply in industries with high exposure to climate and...
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correlations between labor market tightness and wages weakened noticeably. This change was accompanied in a break in the … relationship between wages and prices, so wage inflation has become a much less important determinant of price inflation …
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We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start …
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attributed to service-sector wages, consistent with a dominant role of the retail distribution margin. Second, at the level of … individual goods and services, the average contribution of service-sector wages is significantly reduced, one-third as large (31 … consistent with the notion that baby-sitting services and haircuts embody local wages to a far greater extent than highly traded …
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When central banks set nominal interest rates according to an interest rate reaction function, such as the Taylor rule, and the exchange rate is priced by uncovered interest parity, the real exchange rate is determined by expected inflation differentials and output gap differentials. In this...
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We study the post-war evidence for Japan to see if the same specification for both the economy and the monetary policy rule is useful for understanding Japan's economy and monetary policy. A recurrent theme in the literature on Japanese monetary policy is that there are significant differences...
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This paper analyzes German monetary policy in the post-Bretton Woods era. Despite the public focus on monetary targeting, in practice, German monetary policy involves the management of short term interest rates, as it does in the United States. Except during the mid to late 1970s, the Bundesbank...
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In this paper we provide empirical measures of central bank credibility and augment these with historical narratives from eleven countries. To the extent we are able to apply reliable institutional information we can also indirectly assess their role in influencing the credibility of the...
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