This paper analyses the degree of price rigidity and of inflation persistence across different product categories with particular focus on regulated prices and services for the individual EU15 countries, as well as for the EU15 and the euro area aggregates. We show that services and those HICP...

This paper proposes a full description of the Calvo price-setting model based on partial prices indexation and studies the interaction between partial indexation and trend inflation. We show that using a hybrid version of the Phillips curve partly decreases the risks of overestimate due to the...

In this paper, we estimate and analyse a set of equations of French inflation for forecasting purpose at the horizon of three months, six months and one year. A different equation is associated to each horizon. This approach has the advantage of modeling directly the variable of interest at the...

In this paper, we propose a simple econometric framework to disentangle the respective roles of monetary policy inertia and persistent shocks in interest rate rules. The procedure exploits the cross-equation restrictions provided by a DSGE model which is confronted to a monetary SVAR. We show...

La mondialisation a contribué au ralentissement de l’inflation via une intensification de la concurrence. Mais la convergence des cycles économiques et la pression des émergents sur les marchés de matières premières peuvent créer de nouveaux risques pour la stabilité des prix.

Le 5ème symposium international de la Banque de France a porté sur les effets de la globalisation sur l’inflation et les récentes turbulences financières, ainsi que sur leurs éventuelles implications pour la conduite de la politique monétaire.

We build a model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage bargaining and we assume that hours worked are negotiated every period. We analyze the role of workers? bargaining power in the hours negotiation on unemployment volatility and inflation persistence. The closer to zero is this...

La mondialisation de l’économie s’est accompagnée sur les vingt dernières années d’une baisse généralisée de l’inflation. Cet article décrit les possibles canaux de transmission de la mondialisation à l’inflation et propose une estimation empirique de l’impact agrégé des...

Depuis une cinquantaine d’années, les modèles macro-économétriques ont franchi plusieurs étapes. Les modèles DSGE représentent aujourd’hui l’étape la plus aboutie de ce processus et sont en voie de devenir l’un des principaux outils d’aide à la décision en économie.

Euro area countries as a whole have experienced a marked downward trend over the 1980s. Over this period, the unemployment rate has increased and economic activity has been sluggish. Changes in the implicit inflation target, viewed as low frequency movements of inflation, might possibly explain...