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Optimal Monetary Policy under Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Carlsson, Mikael () (Research Department, Central Bank of Sweden)
Westermark, Andreas () (Department of Economics, Uppsala University)
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We develop a New Keynesian model with staggered price and wage setting where downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) arises endogenously through the wage bargaining institutions. It is shown that the optimal (discretionary) monetary policy response to changing economic conditions then becomes asymmetric. Interestingly, we find that the welfare loss is actually slightly smaller in an economy with DNWR. This is due to that DNWR is not an additional constraint on the monetary policy problem. Instead, it is a constraint that changes the choice set and opens up for potential welfare gains due to lower wage variability. Another finding is that the Taylor rule provides a fairly good approximation of optimal policy under DNWR. In contrast, this result does not hold in the unconstrained case. In fact, under the Taylor rule, agents would clearly prefer an economy with DNWR before an unconstrained economy ex ante.
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Keywords: Monetary Policy Wage Bargaining Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Other versions of this item:
Find related papers by JEL classification: E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
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