Discussion paper

DP11568 The New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve: Calvo vs. Rotemberg

We systematically evaluate how to translate a Calvo wage duration into an implied Rotemberg wage adjustment cost parameter in medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE models by making use of the well-known equivalence of the two setups at first order. We consider a wide range of felicity functions and show that the assumed household insurance scheme and the presence of labor taxation greatly matter for this mapping, giving rise to differences of up to one order of magnitude. Our results account for the inclusion of wage indexing, habit formation in consumption, and the presence of fixed costs in production.

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Citation

Born, B and J Pfeifer (2016), ‘DP11568 The New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve: Calvo vs. Rotemberg‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 11568. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp11568