The Effects of Forward-Versus Backward-Looking Wage Indexationon Price Stabilization Programs /

A standard open-economy model is used to show that price stabilization programs are more likely to succeed if labor contracts specify forward-looking wage indexation. Compared with contracts specifying backward-looking wage indexation or wages based on static expectations, such contracts will result...

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Autore principale: Crowley, Joe
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/038
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF