This paper sheds light on the real effects of foreign central bank's degree of inflation aversion in presence of non-atomistic wage setters. It extends the Lippi's (2003) framework to an open economy and identifies the key strategic mechanisms between monetary policy and wage-setting decisions...

This paper extends the closed economy analysis of strategic interaction between labor unions and the monetary authority in Lippi (REStud 2003) to a two-country open economy framework. It sheds light on the real effect of foreign central bank conservatism, which — through a strategic mechanism...