Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76083 
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Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 632
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In an economy with large wage setters (like industry unions), the monetary regime affects the trade-off between consumer real wages and employment and profits faced by the wage setters. This paper shows that an exchange rate target, including participation in a monetary union, is likely to involve lower wages in the traded sector, and higher wages in the non-traded sector, than does a price target. An exchange rate target also involves higher prices on non-traded goods relative to traded goods. Overall welfare is likely to be higher under a price target.
Subjects: 
wage bargaining
monetary union
inflation target
monetary regime
equilibrium unemployment
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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