Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83038 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 61
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
We demonstrate the existence of a monetary policy tradeoff between price-inflation variability and output-gap variability in an optimizing-agent model with staggered nominal wage and price contracts. This variance tradeoff is absent only in the special case in which prices are sticky and wages are perfectly flexible. When the model is calibrated to exhibit an empirically reasonable degree of nominal wage inertia, strict inflation targeting induces substantial output-gap volatility.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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