France: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

No 2005/397, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Selected Issues paper analyzes the recent French inflation behavior. The paper demonstrates that the recent change in French headline inflation behavior resulted from a few idiosyncratic, i.e., transient, factors. The paper describes the model setup and calibration of some crucial economic relations and parameters. The level of competition in labor and product markets in France and the other EU countries is discussed, including the size of markups. The paper also looks into the economic impact of increasing competition in each market separately and the advantages of coordinating reforms within the euro area.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; labor market; worker; core inflation; searching worker meet; underlying inflation; inflation behavior; worker move; vis-à-vis alternative measures; price change; Inflation; Labor markets; Unemployment; Employment protection; Employment; Europe; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 70
Date: 2005-11-07
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