The dynamic effects of shocks to wages and prices in the United States and the Euro Area

Rita Duarte
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Carlos Robalo Marques

Working Papers from Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department

Abstract: This paper investigates the dynamics of aggregate wages and prices in the United States (US) and the Euro Area (EA) with a special focus on persistence of real wages, wage and price inflation. The analysis is conducted within a structural vector error-correction model, where the structural shocks are identified using the long-run properties of the theoretical model, as well as the cointegrating properties of the estimated system. Overall, in the long run, wage and price inflation emerge as more persistent in the EA than in the US in the face of import price, unemployment, or permanent productivity shocks. This finding is robust to the changes in the sample period and in the models’specifications entertained in the paper.

JEL-codes: C32 C51 E31 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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