Investigating Inflation Persistence Across Monetary Regimes
Under inflation, targeting estimates of the indexation parameter in hybrid New Keynesian Phillips curves are either equal to zero, or very low, in the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, and New Zealand. Analogous results hold for the Euro area under the European Monetary Union, and for Switzerland under the new monetary regime: under stable regimes with clearly defined nominal anchors, inflation appears to be purely forward-looking. These results question the notion that the intrinsic inflation persistence found in post-WWII U.S. data is structural in the sense of Lucas (Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1 [1976], 19-46), and suggest that "hardwiring" inflation persistence in macroeconomic models is potentially misleading. (c) 2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..
Year of publication: |
2008
|
---|---|
Authors: | Benati, Luca |
Published in: |
The Quarterly Journal of Economics. - MIT Press. - Vol. 123.2008, 3, p. 1005-1060
|
Publisher: |
MIT Press |
Saved in:
Online Resource
Saved in favorites
Similar items by person
-
Vector Autoregression Analysis and the Great Moderation
Benati, Luca, (2007)
-
Drift and breaks in labor productivity
Benati, Luca, (2007)
-
U.S. evolving macroeconomic dynamics: a structural investigation
Benati, Luca, (2007)
- More ...