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How do nominal and real rigidities interact? A tale of the second best

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  • Duval, Romain
  • Vogel, Lukas

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This paper analyses the importance of real wage rigidities, in particular through their interaction with price stickiness, for optimal monetary policy in a calibrated small open economy DSGE model including oil in production and consumption. Blanchard and Galí (2007a) show real rigidities to introduce a trade-off between stabilising inflation and the welfare-relevant output gap. The present paper complements their findings by showing that the welfare cost of real rigidities can be substantial compared to nominal frictions. In a typical “tale of the second best”, we also show that in the presence of real wage rigidities, price stickiness can be welfare-enhancing.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 7282.

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Keywords: DSGE model; price stickiness; real wage rigidity; oil price shocks;

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  1. Vogel, Lukas, 2008. "Interacting nominal and real labour market rigidities," MPRA Paper 22647, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised May 2010.
  2. Markus Knell, 2010. "Nominal and Real Wage Rigidities. In Theory and in Europe," Working Papers 161, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank).

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