United States : Selected Issues.

This Selected Issues paper on the United States explains the behavior of inflation and unemployment during 1997-98. The paper highlights that a simple Philips curve equation relating inflation to the unemployment gap has overpredicted inflation since 1993. The mean forecast error for 1994-97 is grea...

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Institution som forfatter: International Monetary Fund
Format: Tidsskrift
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Serier:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 1998/105
Online adgang:Full text available on IMF