The new Keynesian Phillips curve and inflation expectations: Re-specification and interpretation

Economic Theory

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 293-306

  Swamy, P A V B ^a   Tavlas, George S ^b  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

^b BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

1"Objective" probability; Coefficient driver; Inflation unemployment trade off; Rational expectation; Spurious correlation; Time varying coefficient model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847405817     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0100-z     Document Type: Article

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