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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Auteur principal: Laxton, Douglas
Autres auteurs: Clark, Peter
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/017
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF