Inflation sinkt.Das Anliegen des zweiten Beitrags, Abwärtsnominal- und Tariflohnstarrheit in Deutschland, ist, sowohl nach unten … implications of the downward nominal wage rigidity—under a constant degree of rigidity—increase for lower inflation rates. For … inflation rates less than two per-cent the real implications are non-negligible. Additionally, the degree of rigidity itself …

-separability of the utility function, inflation aversion, nominal transaction frictions). The monograph is organized as follows … market share competition with the assumption that agent?s behavior is characterized by inflation aversion. Chapter IV is … devoted to the GMM estimation of crucial parameters of the inflation-aversion model of the previous chapter. A model featuring …

explain the development of inflation dynamics and the formation process of inflation expectations of households respectively. We …

involving changes in the inflation and monetary-policy regimes: the move to floating exchange rates following the breakdown of … throughout the industrialized world a decade later. In the case of the float, inflation which had been rising since the mid-1960s …. Following the shifts to less expansive domestic policy, inflation peaked in most of those same countries and has continued to …

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 … permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff …