coordinated wage bargaining systems have a dampening impact on inflation volatility. -- Business Cycles ; Inflation ; Labor Market …

This study looks at real estate price booms and busts in industrialised countries. It identifies major and persistent …

. The relative price of capital and the reallocation of capital are the key variables in explaining the relation between …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price … data from the German Consumer Price Index that covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and … statedependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in "unconditional" sectoral price flexibility are found to be …

, supply and inventory shocks. We document how gas price fluctuations have a heterogeneous pass-through to euro area prices … through to all components of euro area inflation - producer prices, wages and core inflation, which has implications for …

that movements in import price inflation affect CPI inflation while the impact of movements in the common component of the …-commodity import price inflation have held down overall inflation in many countries in recent years whereas commodity import price …We examine the global dimension of inflation i n 24 OECD countries between 1980 and 2007 in a traditional Phillips …