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for the unemployment-inflation trade- off and for the conduct of monetary policy. We proceed in two steps. We first leave … firms. We derive the relation between inflation and unemployment and discuss how it is influenced by the presence of labor … market frictions and real wage rigidities. We show the nature of the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment …
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Calvo pricing implies output gains, while Rotemberg pricing implies output losses after a disinflation. Introducing real wage rigidities has opposite effects: it generates a long-lasting boom in output in Calvo, and a moderate output slump in Rotemberg.
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consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the inflation persistence that is absent in the … account, the results change dramatically, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Real wage rigidities imply neither inflation … inflation target of the monetary policy. -- Disinflation ; sticky prices ; real wage rigidities ; nonlinearities …
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This paper analyzes the cost of disinflation under real wage rigidities in a micro-founded New Keynesian model. Unlike Blanchard and Galí (2007) who carried out a similar analysis in a linearized framework, we take non-linearities into account. We show that the results change dramatically, both...
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provides a natural interpretation for the dynamic inflation - unemployment relation found in the data …Most central banks perceive a trade-off between stabilizing inflation and stabilizing the gap between output and … inflation is equivalent to stabilizing the welfare-relevant output gap. In this paper, we argue that this property of the new …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with … deterministically varying coefficients and find that there is a profound difference in the responses of unemployment and inflation to …
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labor market and skill obsolescence from long-term unemployment. The model can account for key features of the Great … Recession: a decline in productivity growth, the relative stability of inflation despite a pronounced fall in output (the … aggregate demand raises unemployment and the training costs associated with skill obsolescence. Lower employment hinders …
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Although New Keynesian models with labor market frictions found an increase in unemployment and a decrease in labor … volatilities of unemployment and labor market tightness are not as high as their empirical counterparts. This calls for the … volatility of unemployment and labor market tightness in response to a positive technology shock compared to the model without on …
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consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the inflation persistence that is absent in the … account, the results change dramatically, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Real wage rigidities imply neither inflation … inflation target of the monetary policy …
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