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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Autore principale: Laxton, Douglas
Altri autori: Clark, Peter
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/017
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF