Sectoral Labor Mobility and Optimal Monetary Policy /

In an estimated two-sector New-Keynesian model with durable and nondurable goods, an inverse relationship between sectoral labor mobility and the optimal weight the central bank should attach to durables inflation arises. The combination of nominal wage stickiness and limited labor mobility leads to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cantelmo, Alessandro
Other Authors: Melina, Giovanni
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/040
Online Access:Full text available on IMF