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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laxton, Douglas
Other Authors: Clark, Peter
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/017
Online Access:Full text available on IMF