Monetary policy and staggered wage bargaining when prices are sticky

Arbeitspapier

In this paper, we outline a baseline DSGE model which enables a straightforward analysis of wage bargaining between firms and households/unions in a model with both staggered prices and wages. Relying on empirical evidence, we assume that prices can be changed whenever wages are changed. This feature of the model greatly reduces the complexity of the price and wage setting decisions; specifically it removes complicated interdependencies between current and future price and wage decisions. In an application of the model we study the interaction between labor-market institutions and monetary policy choices, and the consequences for welfare outcomes. Specifically, we focus on the relative bargaining power of unions. We find that, for a standard specification of the monetary policy rule, welfare is substantially affected by the degree of relative bargaining power, but that this effect can be neutralized by optimal discretionary policy.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series ; No. 199

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Monetary Policy ; Central Banks and Their Policies ; Labor Contracts
• Thema: Monetary Policy ; Labor Market ; Bargaining ; Geldpolitik ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Lohnverhandlungen ; Preisrigidität ; Wirtschaftsmodell

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Carlsson, Mikael ; Westermark, Andreas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Sveriges Riksbank
• (wo): Stockholm
• (wann): 2006

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81910
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ