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 parameter, (i ) the more firms adjust on the intensive margin, reducing …

Le 5ème symposium international de la Banque de France a porté sur les effets de la globalisation sur l’inflation et …

on the inflation process. …

-term inflation objectives. In the long term, monetary policy is most effective in achieving its objectives when the inflation target … is changed in response to the new economy and when the monetary authority attempts to stabilize both inflation and output … for in changing the assessment of the potential growth rate and the inflation target. …

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 prix d’importations sur l’inflation. …

La mondialisation a contribué au ralentissement de l’inflation via une intensification de la concurrence. Mais la …

While the relationship between inflation and relative price variability (RPV) has been widely investigated in developed … differently to different inflation regimes across the ECOWAS region, determining the inflation threshold that would minimize the … distortionary impact of expected inflation on RPV in the region. Using the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) model over the …

Inflation targeting (IT) has become the dominant monetary policy framework around the world and most of the countries … member countries' readiness to adopt inflation targeting regime as recommended by the Authority of Heads of State and … dominance, weak fiscal positions, and external shocks which impaired its ability to sustainably subdue inflation to the desired …

While the relationship between inflation and relative price variability (RPV) has been widely investigated in developed … differently to different inflation regimes across the ECOWAS region, determining the inflation threshold that would minimize the … distortionary impact of expected inflation on RPV in the region. Using the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) model over the …