Real wage rigidities and optimal monetary policy in a small open economy
- Authors
- Rhee, Hyuk Jae; Song, Jeongseok
- Issue Date
- Sep-2013
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- Real wage rigidity; Monetary policy; Small open economy
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF MACROECONOMICS, v.37, pp 110 - 127
- Pages
- 18
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF MACROECONOMICS
- Volume
- 37
- Start Page
- 110
- End Page
- 127
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/14335
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jmacro.2013.04.004
- ISSN
- 0164-0704
1873-152X
- Abstract
- The main objective of the study is to provide a theoretical analysis of optimal monetary policy in a small open economy where households set real wage in a staggered fashion. The introduction of real wage rigidities plays a important role to resolve main shortcomings of the standard new Keynesian small open economy model. The main findings regarding the issue of monetary policy design can be summarized as three fold. First, the optimal policy is to seek to minimize variance of domestic price inflation, real wage inflation, and the output gap if both domestic price and real wage are sticky. Second, controlling CPI inflation directly or indirectly induces relatively large volatility in output gap and other inflations. Therefore, both CPI inflation-based Taylor rule and nominal wage-inflation based Taylor rule are suboptimal. Last, a policy that responds to a real wage inflation is most desirable. (c) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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