exhibit persistence in inflation; they proposed a simple modification, in which workers cared about the real wages of other …), generates negative autocorrelations in inflation. …

literature, cannot explain the persistence observed in actual inflation. We argue that one of the more prominent alternative … generates inflation persistence, but this is a consequence of their assuming that workers care about the past real wages of … obtains the standard formulation with no inflation persistence …

Most wage-contracting models with rational expectations fail to replicate the persistence in inflation observed in the … data. We argue that coordination problems and multiple equilibria are the keys to explaining inflation persistence. We … thus rational. Based on quarterly U.S. data over the period 1955-2000, we find evidence that inflation is more persistent …

literature, cannot explain the persistence observed in actual inflation. We argue that one of the more prominent alternative … generates inflation persistence, but this is a consequence of their assuming that workers care about the past real wages of … obtains the standard formulation with no inflation persistence …