Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92370 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1904
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper extends the efficiency wages/partially adaptive expectations Phillips curve, otherwise known as the price-price Phillips curve, from a closed economy context to an open economy one with both commodity trade and capital mobility. We also consider the case of a monetary union (a country) with two member states (regions). The theoretical results are a priori ambiguous. However, in the first place, on resorting to plausible numerical simulations, economic openness increases the reactiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate. In regard to a monetary union, the national unemployment multiplier in the aggregate Phillips curve decreases with the weight of the member state in aggregate employment and increases with that in output. Secondly, we show in two empirical applications that our calibration can provide informative priors for models to be estimated thanks to the Kalman filter.
Subjects: 
efficiency wages
unemployment
Phillips curve
inflation
adaptive expectations
Kalman filter
JEL: 
E3
E20
E40
E50
F15
F41
C22
C26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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