output and inflation across a population of firms is studied. The only form of heterogeneity is confined to the probability … of output and inflation depend crucially on the proportion of firms that are allowed to change their prices. We test this …-cyclical correlation between the skewness of inflation and aggregates, but the relation with output is less sure. Our results can be …

Having the high unemployment in Germany in mind, this book discusses how macroeconomic theory has evolved over the past … business cycle theory. It also probes in which direction models may be extended from here. Empirically, the book uses different …

New-Keynesian macroeconomic models typically assume that any long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment is … rate, unemployment and inflation in West Germany from the early 1960s up to 2004 using a multivariate co … data a strong negative correlation between the trend components of inflation and unemployment. We show that this finding …

policy did not change in Germany, unlike in France and Spain. Specifically, the impact of inflation on interest rates …