In order to explain the joint fluctuations of output, inflation and the labor market, this paper first develops a … helps to explain the sluggishness of inflation and the persistence of output after a monetary policy shock. The ability of … the model to account for the joint dynamics of output and inflation rely on its ability to explain the dynamics in the …

-term inflation volatility in response to exogenous shocks can be optimal; the optimal response to adverse financial shocks is to … lower interest rates, if not at the zero bound, and to engineer a short period of controlled inflation; the Taylor rule may …

variances for all series, and decreases in the variances of inflation and the output gap, ithout any need of sunspot shocks …

Price inflation in the euro area has been stable and low since the Global Financial Crisis, despite notable changes in … output and unemployment. We show that an increasing share of high markup firms is part of the explanation of why inflation … countries and, by linking these markup developments to the evolution of sectoral level producer and consumer price inflation, we …

volatile inflation. Models with wage stickiness and right-to-manage bargaining or with firm-specific labour emerge as the most … promising candidates. -- Inflation Dynamics ; Labour Market ; Business Cycle ; Real Rigidities …

-Wouters model and its forecasts of real GDP growth and inflation are compared with those from two extensions. The first adds … extensions improve the density forecasts of real GDP and inflation and their joint forecasts up to an eight-quarter horizon. We … find that adding financial frictions leads to a deterioration in the forecasts, with the exception of longer-term inflation …

This paper studies the effect of monetary policy on inflation along the income distribution in several euro area …. On the one hand, different consumption shares imply that inflation by high-income households responds less to monetary … its reaction to monetary policy, which imply that inflation by high-income households responds more to monetary policy. …