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This letter uses consumer survey data to estimate expectations-augmented Phillips curves with inflation expectations … disaggregated by socioeconomic and demographic groups. The inflation expectations of high-income, college-educated, male, and … working-age people play a larger role in inflation dynamics than do the expectations of other groups of consumers or of …
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Standard sticky information pricing models successfully capture the sluggish movement of aggregate prices in response to monetary policy shocks but fail at matching the magnitude and frequency of price changes at the micro level. This paper shows that in a setting where firms choose when to...
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This paper analyses how labour market heterogeneity affects unemployment, productivity and business cycle dynamics that are relevant for monetary policy. The model matches remarkably well the short and long run dynamics of skilled and unskilled workers. Skill mismatch and skill-specific labour...
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When referring to the inflation trends over the last decade, economists speak of "puzzles": a “missing disinflation …” puzzle in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and a ”missing inflation” one in the years of recovery to nowadays. To this, a … literature through the development of a newly specified Phillips Curve model, in which the inflation-expectation component is …
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the most important source of inflation variability in the euro area. This article shows that an empirically plausible …
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improvement in performance is driven mostly by lagged inflation and that the SPI model overemphasizes inflationary persistence …. There appears to be room for improvement in all models in order to induce them to better "track" inflation persistence …
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Endogeneity of the labour market slack in reduced-form Phillips Curves (PCs) is usually addressed either by including proxies for omitted supply shocks, or by using instrumental variables. Using the Kiviet (2020) Kinky Least Squares estimator, we find evidence that supply-shock proxies should...
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This paper compares the Calvo model with a Taylor contracting model in the context of the Smets-Wouters (2003) Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model. In the Taylor price setting model, we introduce firm-specific production factors and discuss how this assumption can help to reduce...
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model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …
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In this paper we develop a multi-sector model of firms' pricing behaviour under imperfect competition. We allow for the fact that some goods sold will be for final consumption, while others will be used as intermediate goods in further production. We assume that price setters are constrained by...
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