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Based on a post-Keynesian model of the relationship between wages, prices and employment, this paper begins by studying the extent to which unit labour cost trends have been responsible for disinflation and deflationary tendencies in Germany and Europe. Thereafter, the reasons for the...
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Based on a post-Keynesian model of the relationship between wages, prices and employment, this paper begins by studying the extent to which unit labour cost trends have been responsible for disinflation and deflationary tendencies in Germany and Europe. Thereafter, the reasons for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009327960
2013, end the long deflation of the Japanese economy? Answering the question, we constructed a linear projection model to … realized the sharp recovery in 2013. We conclude that the regime change of monetary policy end the Japanese long deflation in …
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consequences of deflation. By means of impulse response analyses and panel regressions, we find that a 1 percent fall in the price … the exchange rate raises the absolute value of the coefficient on deflation. Moreover, the debt ratio increases when … deflation is also associated with an economic recession. For government revenue, its lag yields a statistically significant …
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it is what we define as deflation. In this context, I study in particular the behavior of real and nominal incomes (wages … and profits) over time, the evolution of nominal and real GDP and the effects of deflation on debt contracts. Specifically …, I assess the common claims that deflation decreases incomes, postpone spending and favors creditors at the expense of …
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should be common or that a policy close to the Friedman rule and thus some deflation is optimal. Finally, a formal "baby …
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should be common or that a policy close to the Friedman rule and thus some deflation is optimal. Finally, a formal "baby …
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The Bank of Japan permitted a ten-year period of deflation (1995-2005) which appears to have ended in 2006. The … deflation, as well as the preceding disinflation, adversely affected the financial and real sectors of the economy that in turn … offered to account for the deflation period. This paper offers a second-best explanation based on a two-player policy game …
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We incorporate inequity aversion into an otherwise standard New Keynesian dynamic equilibrium model with Calvo wage contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their...
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We incorporate inequity aversion into an otherwise standard New Keynesian dynamic equilibrium model with Calvo wage contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424702