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Policy Credibility and Inflation in a Wage-Setting Game

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  • Hafiz A. Akhand

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This paper combines the conventional monetary policy game with a wage-setting game among several noncooperating wage setters (each with some monopoly power). The inflationary bias in market economies is explained in terms of the wage-competition bias. This bias does not disappear even when the central bank communicates its policy goals precisely and credibly. In a policy game with several noncooperative monopolistic wage setters and a central bank, if discretionary policy is interpreted as wage setters' being Stackelberg leaders relative to the central bank, a discretionary policy leads to both higher inflation and lower output.

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  • Hafiz A. Akhand, 1992. "Policy Credibility and Inflation in a Wage-Setting Game," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 25(2), pages 407-419, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:25:y:1992:i:2:p:407-19
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    1. Agiomirgianakis, George M., 1998. "Monetary Policy Games and International Migration of Labor in Interdependent Economies," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 243-266, April.
    2. Holden,S., 1999. "Wage setting under different monetary regimes," Memorandum 12/1999, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
    3. Nikos Apergis & John Papanastasiou & Kostas Velentzas, 1997. "The credibility of policy announcements: Greek evidence," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(6), pages 699-705.
    4. Timo Henckel, 2010. "Monopolistic unions, Brainard uncertainty, and optimal monetary policy," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 62(2), pages 307-322, April.
    5. Borda, Patrie & Gaumont, Damien & Manioc, Olivier, 2011. "Unions’ Coordination and the Central Banker’s behavior in a Monetary Union," MPRA Paper 50293, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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