Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24886 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1490
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
We study the design of optimal monetary policy (Ramsey policies) in a model with sticky prices and unionized labour markets. Collective wage bargaining and unions monopoly power tend to dampen wage fluctuations and to amplify employment fluctuations relatively to a DNK model with walrasian labour markets. The optimal monetary policy must trade-off counteracting forces. On the one side deviations from zero inflation allow the policy maker to smooth inefficient employment fluctuations. On other side, the presence of wage mark-ups and wage stickiness produce inflationary pressures that require aggressive inflation targeting. Overall we find that the Ramsey planner deviates from full price stability and that an optimal rule targets inflation the real economic activity alongside inflation.
Subjects: 
Optimal monetary policy
labour market unionization
threat points
JEL: 
E0
E4
E5
E6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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