Solving RE models with discontinuous policy rules – an application to minimum wage setting in Germany

Dirk Bursian

Applied Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 24, issue 15, 1121-1126

Abstract: The legal regulations require the minimum wage in Germany to be adjusted biennially which gives rise to a policy discontinuity. From the perspective of rational expectations models, such policy features render standard local approximation techniques infeasible. The article presents a stylized model in which negotiated wages and corporate profits are the outcome of an optimization problem, while changes to the minimum wage are modelled by a discontinuous policy rule. Using the simple example of minimum wage setting in Germany, the article illustrates how such models can be solved using the method of undetermined coefficients and presents selected simulation results.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1259736

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