He argues that unemployment stems from a lack of co-operation between unions and monetary authorities: In an economy with endogenous money as EMU, wage setters are responsible for price stability while the central bank is responsible for the level of output.
SEBASTIAN DULLIEN is Economics Correspondent at the Financial Times Deutschland, the German language edition of the FT. Previously he worked as a short term expert for the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung. He also teaches at the Freie Universität in Berlin.
Introduction: The Unsolved Unemployment-Inflation Puzzle Development of Literature on Interaction of Monetary Policy and Wage Bargaining European Empirics Problem with Standard Approaches: Criticising the Real Balance Effect Monetary Policy Transmission in a World of Endogenous Money Output and Prices in a World Without the Real Balance Effect The Central Bank: Restrictions in a World of Endogenous Money Optimal Policy Mix and Logic of a Social Pact Conclusion