A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff

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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth? describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the price adjustments to each successive change in the money supply are never able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational expectations, there is a long-run inflationunemployment tradeoff.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 636

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: unemployment ; Phillips curve ; nominal inertia ; wage-price staggering ; monetary policy ; business cycles ; forward-looking expectations ; inflation ; Phillips-Kurve ; Schätzung ; Theorie ; USA

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Karanassou, Marika ; Sala, Héctor ; Snower, Dennis J.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2002

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2905
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ