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Wage-Price Dynamics and Structural Reforms in Japan

By Davide Porcellacchia

February 10, 2016

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Davide Porcellacchia. Wage-Price Dynamics and Structural Reforms in Japan, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

Structural reforms in the liquidity trap need not be deflationary. This paper develops a simple framework to study the role that key characteristics of Japan’s labor and product markets—labor-market duality and weak corporate governance—play in generating unfavorable wage-price dynamics. The model allows a discussion of whether and in what form structural reforms may contribute to Japan’s short-run goal of reflating the economy. It finds that boosting inflation with structural reforms implies an unusual trade-off with employment, that is an inverted Phillips curve. Simultaneous implementation of labor-market and product-market reforms is most effective in terms of reflating the economy.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Financial services, Inflation, Labor, Labor markets, Liquidity, Prices, Zero lower bound

Keywords: Abenomics, Cash holding, Corporate governance, Global, Inflation, Japan, Labor market, Labor markets, Labor-market duality, Liquidity, Liquidity trap, Market power, Nominal interest rate, Phillips curve, Price level, Real wage, Single open-ended contract, Structural reforms, Wage-price dynamics, WP, Zero lower bound

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    26

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2016/020

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2016020

  • ISBN:

    9781498316637

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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