- 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 … setting (in which real variables not only affect inflation, but are also influenced by it), standard wage-price staggering …

the PC and explain the evolution of inflation and unemployment in the US from 1970 to 2006. Since our empirical … 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 …

" – although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for thestylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly … asserted that, in the context of thenew Phillips curve (NPC), inflation is a jump variable... …

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 …

period. The workers' bargaining power in the hours negotiation affects both unemployment volatility and inflation persistence … cost determination. This set-up produces realistic labor market statistics together with inflation persistence …

analyze the properties of the model, first, in the context of a typical real business cycle model driven by stochastic …

chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of … and real sides of the economy are symbiotic. In the light of the significant and robust long-run inflation …

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 …

The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies the compartmentalisation … of macroeconomics. While one branch of the literature models inflation dynamics and estimates the unemployment rate … compatible with inflation stability, another one determines the real economic factors that drive the natural rate of unemployment …