Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72639 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2003/08
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In this paper we estimate a small model of the euro area to be used as a laboratory for evaluating the performance of alternative monetary policy strategies. We start with the relationship between output and inflation and investigate the fit of the nominal wage contracting model due to Taylor (1980)and three different versions of the relative real wage contracting model proposed by Buiter and Jewitt (1981)and estimated by Fuhrer and Moore (1995a) for the United States. While Fuhrer and Moore reject the nominal contracting model in favor of the relative contracting model which induces more inflation persistence, we find that both models fit euro area data reasonably well. When considering France, Germany and Italy separately, however, we find that the nominal contracting model fits German data better, while the relative contracting model does quite well in countries which transitioned out of a high inflation regime such as France and Italy. We close the model by estimating an aggregate demand relationship and investigate the consequences of the different wage contracting specifications for the inflation-output variability tradeoff, when interest rates are set according to Taylor's rule.
Subjects: 
European Monetary Union
euro area
macroeconomic modelling
rational expectations
nominal rigidities
overlapping wage contracts
inflation persistence
monetary policy rules
JEL: 
E31
E52
E58
E61
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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