This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of "frictional growth," a … has not only persistent, but permanent real effects, giving rise to a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. We … the US unemployment and inflation trajectories during the nineties. …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and …

-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …

hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables. …

model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …

" - although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for the stylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly … asserted that, in the context of the new Phillips curve (NPC), inflation is a jump variable. We argue that this "persistency … equilibrium setting (in which real variables not only affect inflation, but are also influenced by it), standard wage …

The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies that these phenomena can … be analysed by separate branches of economics. The macro literature tries to explain inflation dynamics and estimates the … long-run and that it cannot generate substantial inflation persistence relies on the implausible assumption of a zero …

constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … 1995 would have led to an annual increase in inflation of 2.5 percentage points if it had not been largely offset by …

This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation for 10 of the euro area countries. The … combination of low wage inflation and high unemployment in Europe is usually attributed to a rise in the natural rate of … unemployment that may account for a changing pattern in the unemployment inflation tradeoff. Moreover, it analyzes whether the …