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During the turbulent 1970s and 1980s the Bundesbank established an outstandingreputation in the world of central banking. Germany achieved a high degree of domesticstability and provided safe haven for investors in times of turmoil in the internationalfinancial system. Eventually the Bundesbank...
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Despite notable improvements in the labour market since 2013, wage growth in the euro area was subdued and substantially overpredicted in 2013-17. This paper summarises the findings of an ESCB expert group on the reasons for low wage growth and provides comparable analyses on wage developments...
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wages – the increase of nominal wages was influencing the increase of prices mostly in the same quarter. After taking into …
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wages – the increase of nominal wages was influencing the increase of prices mostly in the same quarter. After taking into …
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Recent literature reaches contrasting conclusions on the ability of price/wage staggering models to generate output persistence. The authors derive fairly general results from a stylised log-linear model which encompasses most of the microfound model of price/wage staggering.
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We sketch a framework for monitoring macroeconomic activity in real-time and push it in new directions. In particular, we focus not only on real activity, which has received most attention to date, but also on inflation and its interaction with real activity. As for the recent recession, we find...
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wages – the increase of nominal wages was influencing the increase of prices mostly in the same quarter. After taking into …
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vs. sticky wages, interactions at the firm level between price and wage-setting, alternative forms of hiring frictions … little real rigidity and, so, too volatile inflation, owing to strong responses of marginal wages and hours per employee … the responses of wages, inflation and employment …
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We develop a model of a frictional labor market with idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks, sticky wages, and two …-sided lack of commitment between workers and firms. In this environment, wages are allocative in the sense that inefficient job … inefficient job separations as well as the aggregate response of employment and real wages to monetary shocks …
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This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and long contracts as well as long contracts concluded in different periods are strategic...
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