Thursday, 21 November 2019

Resolving the missing deflation and inflation puzzles

a column by Jesper Lindé and Mathias Trabandt for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

The alleged breakdown of the Phillips curve has left monetary policy researchers and central bankers wondering if we need to develop completely new models for price and wage determination.

This column argues that a relatively small alteration of the standard New Keynesian model, combined with using the nonlinear instead of the linearised solution, is sufficient to resolve the two puzzles – the ‘missing deflation’ during the recession and the ‘missing inflation’ during the recovery – underlying the supposed breakdown.

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And at last I begin to understand.



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