Macroeconomic dynamics and the Phillips curve under diverse assumptions on the wage adjustment mechanism

Authors

  • Alejandro Rodríguez Arana Banco de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24201/ee.v19i2.173

Keywords:

macroeconomics, nominal wages, dynamic inestability

Abstract

In a quite simplified model, when nominal wages are completely predetermined, different macroeconomic shocks produce oscillations in output and inflation that can be stable or explosive. If they are stable, in many cases a peculiar dynamics, perhaps complex, appears, where output and inflation show cycles of multiple order. Even in those cases the cycles show well defined patterns. The model of this work suggests that in more real contexts marginal changes in certain rules of price adjustment could generate hyper sensibility of macroeconomic variables to some parameters, as well as dynamic instability.

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Published

2004-07-01

How to Cite

Rodríguez Arana, A. (2004). Macroeconomic dynamics and the Phillips curve under diverse assumptions on the wage adjustment mechanism. Estudios Económicos De El Colegio De México, 19(2), 181–210. https://doi.org/10.24201/ee.v19i2.173