What's Up with the Phillips Curve?
By Marco del Negro, M. Lenza, Giorgio E. Primiceri, Andrea Tambalotti. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2020
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ABSTRACT:The business cycle is alive and well, and real variables respond to it more or less as they always did. Witness the Great Recession. Inflation, in contrast, has gone quiescent. This paper studies the sources of this disconnect using vector autoregressions and an estimated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. It finds that the disconnect is due primarily to the muted reaction of inflation to cost pressures, regardless of how they are measured—a flat aggregate supply curve. A shift in policy toward more forceful inflation stabilization also appears to have played some role by reducing the impact of demand shocks on the real economy. The evidence rules out stories centered around changes in the structure of the labor market or in how we should measure its tightness.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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- The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States (2020, background): “Important recent publications estimating the Phillips curve include Ball and Mazumder (2011, 2019), Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2015), Stock and Watson (2019), Barnichon and Mesters (2020), and Del Negro et al. (2020).”