Real wage rigidities and the new Keynesian model

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages 35-65

  Blanchard, Olivier ^a   Galí, Jordi ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflation inertia; Inflation targeting; Monetary policy; Oil price shocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847323444     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2007.00015.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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