Changes in U.S. inflation persistence

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Kang, Kyu Ho ^a   Kim, Chang Jin ^b   Morley, James ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Inflation gap; Inflation persistence; Markov switching; New Keynesian Phillips Curve; Unobserved components model

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350437807     PISSN: 10811826     EISSN: 15583708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1558-3708.1693     Document Type: Article

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