Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment …

inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro …. We find that total connectedness is larger for prices (58.28%) than for unemployment (41.81%). We also identify …

The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest …. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new … Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic discounting, small positive rates of inflation can be optimal. In …

consensus is that real wage rigidities can be a useful mechanism to induce the inflation persistence that is absent in the … account, the results change dramatically, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Real wage rigidities imply neither inflation … inflation target of the monetary policy …

and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries … inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the … volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …

the PC and explain the evolution of inflation and unemployment in the US from 1970 to 2006. Since our empirical …-run. Furthermore, during the stagflating 70s, the productivity slowdown contributed substantially to the increases in both unemployment … and inflation, while the monetary expansion was quite ineffective and led mainly to higher inflation. Finally, the …

This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of quot;frictional growth … policy 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 …

models can generate both substantial inflation persistence and a nonzero inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the long … - 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 …