Using a standard dynamic general equilibrium model, we show that the interaction of staggered nominal contracts with hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables...

The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15percentage points, with roughly constant inflation. This change has been more pronouncedthan elsewhere...

This paper examines the Turkish wage curve using individual data from the HouseholdLabor Force Survey (HLFS) including 26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008.When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is evidence infavor of the wage curve only for younger and female...

In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effectsof benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany...

Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using theefficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urbaneconomy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to allow forbehavioral substitution between leisure time...

Die Beschäftigungswirkungen von Steuersenkungen und Änderungen der Steuerprogressionwerden in Modellen mit Lohnverhandlungen und Effizienzlöhnen untersucht.Es zeigt sich, daß die betrachteten Standardmodelle die positiven Effekteeiner steileren Steuerprogression überzeichnen;...

This paper highlights relative price adjustments taking place in the global economy as important sources of the lower levels of inflation rates observed in the recent decades. Using a markup model, it shows substantial effects from declines in wage costs and import prices relative to consumer...

The remarkable stability of low domestic inflation in many countries requires explanation. In this paper, a number of competing hypotheses are evaluated on a stand-alone basis, and all are found to be inadequate. This includes the view that this outcome has been solely the result of more...

Recent work on U.S. data calls into question the ability of simple Phillips curvemodels to forecast inflation. This paper asks whether there is similar evidence of abreakdown in the forecasting ability of Phillips curve models in other OECD countries.The results suggests that the ability of a...

In this paper, we investigate the information content of implied probabilities (Back and Brown, 1993) to improve estimation in unconditional moment conditions models. We propose and evaluate two 3-step euclidian empirical likelihood estimators and their bias-correction versions for weakly...