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offers a consistent framework that ties together wage growth, inflation expectations and price inflation. It is used to study … the surge and persistence of inflation in the post-pandemic period in Belgium. According to the model, a sequence of … inflation in this period. Though the Belgian replication of the model predicts sensitive short-term inflation expectations to …
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We study how the interaction between economic openness and competitive selection affects the effectiveness of employment (and entry) subsidisation. Within a twocountry heterogeneous-firms model with endogenous labour supply, we find that optimal employment subsidies are always positive even...
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High inter-country variability characterises the responsiveness of both output to (exogenous) shocks and employment to output contractions. We argue that intercountry differences in firm-size distributions contribute to explaining this variability. Within an open economy model, we show that...
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Since the Eastern enlargement of the EU in 2004, Austria has lost global export market shares. At the same time exports to Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) have gained a significant portion of Austria's total exports. Moreover, in recent years Austrian GDP growth has slowed down and...
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Developing country inflation is in the headlines again. Mainstream macroeconomics typically ignores the role of … monetary sources of inflation in the presence of real wage resistance and distributional conflict. The analysis shows that the … relatively small shock leads to sustained and accelerating inflation and a wage-price spiral, thanks to conflicting claims on …
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We study the effects of demand, tax and supply shocks in one- and twocountry macroeconomic models with fixed exchange rates, with our main emphasis on the stabilisation properties of progressive taxation. The models try to depict outcomes for the EMU countries. In the one-country model we obtain...
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is subsequently shown that variations in trend inflation significantly explain variations in the degree of wage …
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past inflation during the Great Inflation but not during the Great Moderation. However, most DSGE models assume fixed … monetary policy. We find that workers index their wages to past inflation when technology and permanent inflation-target shocks … drive output fluctuations; when aggregate demand shocks do, workers index to trend-inflation. In addition, workers' choices …
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inflation, a finding that is at odds with the assumption of constant indexation parameters in most New-Keynesian DSGE models. We … response to aggregate shocks and monetary policy. We show that workers index wages to past inflation when output fluctuations … are primarily explained by technology and permanent inflation-target shocks, whereas they index to trend inflation when …
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