Phillips Curves, Phillips Lines and the Unemplyment Costs of Overheating /

Most empirical work on the U.S. Phillips curve has had a strong tendency to impose global linearity on the data. The basic objective of this paper is to reconsider the issue of nonlinearity and to underscore its importance for policymaking. After briefly reviewing the history of the Phillips curve a...

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Glavni avtor: Laxton, Douglas
Drugi avtorji: Clark, Peter
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/017
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF
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Izvleček:Most empirical work on the U.S. Phillips curve has had a strong tendency to impose global linearity on the data. The basic objective of this paper is to reconsider the issue of nonlinearity and to underscore its importance for policymaking. After briefly reviewing the history of the Phillips curve and the basis for convexity, we derive it explicitly using standard models of wage and price determination. We provide some empirical estimates of Phillips curves and Phillips lines for the United States and use some illustrative simulations to contrast the policy implications of the two models.
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ISSN:1018-5941
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