Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17976 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2008-4
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
In their work, Galí, Gertler and Lopez-Salido, GGL, assert that the hybrid New Keynesian Phillips curve (NPC) with dominance of forward-looking behavior and real marginal costs is robust to choices of estimation procedure, details of variables definitions and choice of data samples. In an estimation on panel data from OECD countries we replicate the typical empirical NPC from country studies. However, we also test an alternative economic interpretation of the empirical correlations. Specifically we find that the expected rate of future inflation and real marginal costs serve as replacements for equilibrium correction terms that are implied by the general imperfect competition model of wage and price setting. As a explanatory model of OECD inflation, the NPC is encompassed by an existing theory.
Subjects: 
New Keynesian Phillips Curve
forward-looking price setting
panel data model
encompassing
JEL: 
E12
C52
C23
E31
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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