The Wage Price Spiral

Olivier Blanchard

No 1771, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper rehabilitates the old wage price spiral. It shows that, after an increase in aggregate demand, the process of adjustment of nominal prices and nominal wages results from attempts by workers to maintain or increase their real wage and by firms to maintain or increase their markups of prices over wages. Under continuous price and wage setting, the process of adjustment would be instantaneous ; under staggering of price and wage decisions, the adjustment takes time. The more inflexible real wages and markups are to shifts in demand, the higher is the degree of price level inertia, the longer lasting are the effects of aggregate demand on output.

Date: 1985-12
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Published as Blanchard, Olivier J. "The Wage Price Spiral," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 101, No. 406, pp. 545-565, August 1986.

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