Inflation and Openness with Non-Atomistic Wage-Setters
20 Pages Posted: 25 Jan 2001
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Inflation and Openness with Non-Atomistic Wage-Setters
Date Written: March 2000
Abstract
This paper analyses the impact of trade openness on inflation in a strategic framework characterized by monopolistic production in the domestic sector and unionized labour markets. By stressing the interplay between internal and external sources of economic distortion, we show that the economy's inflationary bias reduces up to a critical level of trade openness. Beyond this threshold, wage setters may be induced to behave more aggressively in open economies, leading to higher equilibrium inflation. Based on a regression analysis that investigates the combined effect of labour market institutions and openness on inflation across nineteen OECD economies, we show that inflation is negatively related to openness when wage bargaining is decentralized, while there is virtually no link between openness and inflation at higher levels of wage centralization.
Keywords: Inflation, Trade Openness, Wage Bargaining, Monetary Policy Games
JEL Classification: E5, F4, J5
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