<DIV><DIV><P>United States monetary policy has traditionally been modeled under the assumption that the domestic economy is immune to international factors and exogenous shocks. Such an assumption is increasingly unrealistic in the age of integrated capital markets, tightened links between national...</p></div></div>

In this paper we present a simple, theory-based measure of the variations in aggregate economic efficiency associated with business fluctuations. We decompose this indicator, which we refer to as the gap, into two constituent parts: a price markup and a wage markup, and show that the latter...

Gal and Gertler (1999) developed a hybrid variation of the New Keynesian Phillips curve that relates inflation to real marginal cost, expected future inflation and lagged inflation. GMM estimates of the model suggest that forward looking behavior is highly important; the coefficient on expected...

Los autores presentan evidencia sobre el ajuste de la Nueva Curva de Phillips para el area del euro durante el periodo 1970-1998. Utilizan esta evidencia para comparar las caracteristicas dinamicas de la inflacion en el area del euro y en Estados Unidos. Ademas, estudian los factores...

A partir de un modelo teorico, se presenta una medida de las variaciones en el grado de eficiencia ligadas a las fluctuaciones ciclicas de una economia. Este indicador (gap) se descompone en dos componentes: un margen de precios y un marge de salarios, siendo este ultimo el que contribuye en...

We construct a measure of Euro area cyclical effficiency, following the approach developed in Galí, Gertler and López-Salido (2002).Our measure -wich we call “the gap”- corresponds to the inverse of price over social marginal cost. Here we present a time series of this gap for the Euro...

We construct a measure of Euro area cyclical efficiency, following the approach developed in Galí, Gertler and López-Salido (2002). Our measure –which we call "the gap"– corresponds to the inverse of price over social marginal cost. Here we present a time series of this gap for the Euro...

This paper reports estimates of monetary policy reaction functions for two sets of countries: the G3 (Germany, Japan and the United States) and the E3 (France, Italy and the United Kingdom). It finds that since 1979 each of the G3 central banks has pursued an implicit form of inflation...