July 8, 2017

Laying the bastard Phillips Curve to rest

Comment on Nick Rowe on ‘Never mind the flatness, feel the length (of the observed Phillips Curve)’

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When you have cognitive dissonances with the Phillips Curve it is NOT your fault but rather a sure sign of mental health. The Phillips Curve is misspecified since Samuelson/Solow. To make matters short the elementary version of the correct structural Phillips Curve is shown on Wikimedia.#1 The structural Phillips Curve consists alone of measurable variables and is therefore identical with what you call the observed Phillips Curve.

For the derivation see Sections 5 to 7 of the working paper Keynes’ Employment Function and the Gratuitous Phillips Curve Disaster.#2

Egmont Kakarot-Handtke


#1 Wikimedia AXEC36
Structural Phillips Curve
#2 SSRN


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