• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Nominal Wage Flexibility, Wage Indexation and Monetary Union
  • Contributor: Calmfors, Lars [Author]; Johansson, Åsa [Author]
  • imprint: Munich: Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), 2002
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: wage indexation ; asymmetric shocks ; nominal wage flexibility ; monetary union
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  • Description: Membership in a monetary union implies stronger incentives for nominal wage flexibility in the form of wage indexation and shorter contract length than nonmembership. For example, entry into a monetary union may cause a move from a non-indexation to an indexation equilibrium. But more wage flexibility is only an imperfect substitute for an own monetary policy. It is possible that an increase in wage flexibility is welfare-decreasing because of the accompanying rise in price variability. The interaction between wage setting and central bank behaviour may result in either multiple equilibria or a unique full-indexation equilibrium.
  • Access State: Open Access