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During the recovery from the Great Recession, inflation did not reach the central bank's 2 percent objective as quickly … contestable and damped retail inflation. This hypothesis is tested using data on the online share of retail sales, which are … sensitivity of inflation to unemployment rate changes. Improvement in fit from just including the online share is tiny—so far …
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relation between their current wages and their past wages, adjusted for inflation. We call this the post-crisis Phillips Curve …In this paper we test a new empirical relationship between wage and inflation. We introduce the concept of a cumulative …. The shape of the post-crisis Phillips Curve expresses the theoretical assumption that the inflation rate stays below its …
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Central bankers are raising interest rates on the assumption that wage-push inflation may lead to stagflation. This is … to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …
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conclusion is to make wages and the nominal exchange rate anchors for the price level, which implies that nominal wages should … increase according to trends in productivity and the target inflation rate of the central bank. Wage developments without …
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A model of nominal labor-price dynamics is derived from the choice of an efficient strategy to adjust wages for … inflation. The model, named the rational-arrangements Phillips curve, identifies a central role for catch-up to price inflation … that has already occurred and a more latent role for rational expectations of future inflation. The reinterpreted Phillips …
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As inflation rates in the United States decline, analysts are asking if there are economic reasons to hold the rates at … levels above zero. Previous studies of whether inflation "greases the wheels" of the labor market ignore inflation …-setting that allows the benefits of inflation (downward wage flexibility) to be separated from disruptive uncertainty about …
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rates on domestic inflation, which may have contributed to differences in policy stances during the boom in commodity prices …
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This paper explores whether the transmission mechanism between wages and prices in the euro area is affected by the … growth regime. Since the great financial crisis inflation developments have posed major puzzles to economists as inflation … paper analyses whether the wage-price pass-through may have contributed to these inflation puzzles. Applying the Threshold …
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This paper examines the role of inflation expectations in Solomon Islands, a Pacific Island Country, using the Hybrid … matter for inflation. Fuel prices and output gap are important indicators of current inflation. The study highlights key … through effect onto domestic prices. Studies on the role of inflation expectations in small, open, economies of the Pacific …
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' PC (relating the level of the inflation rate, not the change in this rate, to the rate of unemployment); and the …
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