Relative price variability and the Phillips Curve: Evidence from Turkey

Journal of Economic Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 546-561

  Çatik, A Nazif ^a   Martin, Christopher ^b   Onder, A Özlem ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inflation; Phillips Curve; Relative price variability; Skewness; Turkey; Variable costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053620747     PISSN: 01443585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443581111161814     Document Type: Article

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