Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
- 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 … puzzle is highly misleading, relying on the exogeneity of the forcing variable (e.g. output gap, marginal costs, unemployment …