Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

4-2017

Abstract

We assess the inclusion of wage inflation as an intermediate target of an emerging central bank using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with sticky wages and prices calibrated for the South Korean economy. The model includes wage inflation as an additional target jointly with domestic price inflation and the output gap in a Taylor- type interest rate rule operating with a sterilized foreign exchange (FX) intervention rule. Our results show a complementary relationship between wage inflation targeting and price inflation targeting. That is, by supplementing price inflation targeting with wage inflation targeting, welfare improves for cases with and without sterilized FX intervention. When intervention is in place, wage inflation targeting has the added advantage of reducing the volatilities of nominal exchange rate and foreign exchange reserves thereby promoting a more sustainable conduct of FX intervention.

Keywords

DSGE model, Emerging markets, Foreign exchange interventions, Sterilization, Taylor rule, Wage inflation targeting

Discipline

Finance | Finance and Financial Management | Industrial Organization | Labor Economics

Publication

Economic Modelling

Volume

62

First Page

68

Last Page

81

ISSN

0264-9993

Identifier

10.1016/j.econmod.2017.01.013

Publisher

Elsevier

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2017.01.013

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