Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … which observed inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

inflation (sunspot shocks) affecting nominal wage bargaining. Since the estimated parameters fall near the locus of Hopf … bifurcations, country-specific expected inflation shocks can replicate the strong persistence and heterogeneity observed in …

and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …

Utility theory suggests that foreseeable risk should increase the compensation for work. This paper expands on this … notion: on basis of utility theory, people should care not only about risk but also about the skewness in the distribution of …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth? describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …

due to nominal, but mostly real wage rigidity is substantial. The extent of real rigidity rises with inflation, whereas …, is most likely minimized in an environment with moderate inflation. …

state contingent inflation taxes/subsidies to smooth those rents. Hence, in the optimal Ramsey plan, inflation deviates from … zero and the optimal volatility of inflation is an increasing function of firing costs. The optimal rule should react to … employment alongside inflation. …

An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … inflation to its reduced form determinants. These findings are attributed to the behaviour of wages following movements in …

height to a statistically significant degree. A variety of estimation methods, tests and specifications yield robust results …

This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to … evidence against Sharpe-Lintner CAPM is found mainly during the recent financial crisis. Furthermore, a strong negative …