Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185935 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Citation: 
[Journal:] Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics [ISSN:] 2235-6282 [Volume:] 146 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2010 [Pages:] 185-208
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the impact of the monetary policy change of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in 1999 on the Swiss labor market on the basis of a Phillips relationship. Theoretical considerations as well as previous empirical work suggest that the SNB's shift to a more inflation-targeted policy should have increased real-wage flexibility and lowered the NAIRU, the sacrifice ratio, and the level and persistence of inflation in Switzerland. Our results tend to confirm these expectations, although a number of the measured effects are not statistically significant.
Subjects: 
Inflation targeting
NAIRU
Phillips curve
JEL: 
E24
E31
E50
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Document Type: 
Article

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