The New Keynesian Phillips Curve and lagged inflation: A case of spurious correlation?

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 467-481

  Hall, Stephen G ^a   Hondroyiannis, George ^b   Swamy, P A V B ^d   Tavlas, G S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

^d NONE

Author keywords

E31; Jel classification: c51

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449346629     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4284/sej.2009.76.2.467     Document Type: Article

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