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National prices and wage setting in a currency union

Sánchez, Marcelo - European Central Bank - 2009

Existing work on wage bargaining (as exemplified by Cukierman and Lippi, 2001) typicallypredicts more aggressive wage setting under monetary union. This insight has not beenconfirmed by the EMU experience, which has been characterised by wage moderation,thereby eliciting criticism from Posen and...

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The reception of public signals in financial marketswhat if central bank communication becomes stale?

Ehrmann, Michael; Sondermann, David - European Central Bank - 2009

-term interest rates to the Bank of England’s inflation report andto macroeconomic announcements. Due to the quarterly frequency at …, the more timehas elapsed since the latest release of an inflation report, market volatility shouldincrease, the price …

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The dynamic effects of shocks to wages and prices in the United States and the euro area

Duarte, Rita; Marques, Carlos Robalo - European Central Bank - 2009

a special focus on persistence of real wages,wage and price inflation. The analysis is conducted within a structural …, as well as the cointegrating properties of theestimated system. Overall, in the long run, wage and price inflation emerge … as morepersistent in the EA than in the US in the face of import price, unemployment, orpermanent productivity shocks …

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External shocks and international inflation linkages: a global VAR analysis

Galesi, Alessandro; Lombardi, Marco J. - European Central Bank - 2009

food price shocks on a given set of countries.Secondly, we assess the importance of inflation linkages among countries, by …

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Inflation dynamics with labour market matching: assessing alternative specifications

Christoffel, Kai; Costain, James S.; De Walque, Gregory; … - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper reviews recent approaches to modeling the labour market and assessestheir implications for ination dynamics through both their e¤ect on marginalcost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, weconsider the following modeling setups: right-to-manage...

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Downward wage rigidity and optimal steady-state inflation

Fagan, Gabriel; Messina, Julián - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper examines the impact of downward wage rigidity (nominal and real) onoptimal steady-state inflation. For this … andFinland). The calibrated heterogeneous agent models are then solved for differentsteady state rates of inflation to derive …

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The impact of reference norms on inflation persistence when wages are staggered

Knell, Mark; Stiglbauer, Alfred - European Central Bank - 2009

In this paper we present an extension of the Taylor model with staggered wages inwhich wage-setting is also influenced by reference norms (i.e. by benchmark wages).We show that reference norms can considerably increase the persistence of inflationand the extent of real wage rigidity but that...

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