Arbeitspapier
An anatomy of the Phillips curve
The paper examines how the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff depends on the degree to which wage-price decisions are backward- versus forward-looking. When economic agents, facing time-contingent, staggered nominal contracts, have a positive rate of time preference, the current wage and price levels depend more heavily on past variables (e.g. past wages and prices) than on future variables. Consequently, the long-run Phillips curve becomes downward-sloping and, indeed, quit flat for plausible parameter values. This paper provides an intuitive account of how this long-run Phillips curve arises.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 635
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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wage-price staggering
monetary policy
forward- and backward-looking wage-price behavior
traditional and New Phillips curve
inflation-unemployment tradeoff
Phillips-Kurve
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Snower, Dennis J.
Karanassou, Marika
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2002
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Snower, Dennis J.
- Karanassou, Marika
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2002