Workshop on Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity

Norges Bank, 12 and 13 June 2003

Programme and papers

 

Thursday 12 June

10.30 - 10.45:Welcome
10.45 - 11.45:Session 1

William Dickens (Brookings Institution): The IWPF study >> (PPT, 298 kB) (with Erica L. Groshen)

Status of the International Wage Flexibility Project After the Authors' Conference >> (PDF, 256 kB)

Discussant: Steinar Holden: Comment on the International Wage Flexibility Project >> (PPT, 44 kB)

11.45 - 13.00:Lunch
13.00 - 15.15:Session 2

Jonas Agell (Stockholm University): Endogenous wage rigidity >> (PDF, 172 kB) (with Helge Bennmarker)

Discussant: Tommy Sveen (Norges Bank): Endogenous wage rigidity : some comments >> (PPT, 79 kB)


Lorenz Götte (Berkeley): Robustness and real consequences of nominal wage rigidity >> (PDF, 280 kB) (with Ernst Fehr)

Presentation >> (PDF, 370 kB)

Discussant: Glenda Quintini


Friday 13 June

09.30 - 11.45:Session 3

Glenda Quintini (OECD): Nominal wage rigidity and the rate of inflation (with Steve Nickell)

Discussant: Gunnar Bårdsen (NTNU)


Fredrik Wulfsberg (Norges Bank): Downward nominal wage rigidity in Europe >> (PDF, 186 kB) (with Steinar Holden)

Presentation >> (PDF, 3027 kB)

Discussant: Jonas Agell

11.45 - 13.00:Lunch
13.00 - 14.00:Session 4

Kjell Gunnar Salvanes (NHH): Downward nominal wage rigidity in Norway? >> (PPT, 478 kB) (with Steinar Holden and Jan Morten Dyrstad)

Discussant: Harald Dale-Olsen (ISF)

List of participants >>


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Sist oppdatert 22.04.2005