The Phillips Curve
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The Phillips Curve
The Relationship Between Inflation and Unemployment•An inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment until the 1970s•1970s high inflation and unemployment•Is there still a relationship between inflation and unemployment?
The Relationship Between Inflation and Unemployment•An inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment until the 1970s•1970s high inflation and unemployment•Is there still a relationship between inflation and unemployment?
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The 1960s: A Policy Menu?
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Phillips curve A curve showing the short-run relationship between the unemployment rate and the inflation rate.
The Discovery of the Short-Run Trade-offbetween Unemployment and Inflation
The Phillips Curve
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Explaining the Phillips Curve with Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Curves
Using Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply to Explain the Phillips Curve
The Discovery of the Short-Run Trade-offbetween Unemployment and Inflation
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1970s: Why did the Phillips curve vanish?higher oil prices
inflation became persistent and positive
1970s: Why did the Phillips curve vanish?higher oil prices
inflation became persistent and positive
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Is the Phillips Curve a Policy Menu?
Is the Short-Run Phillips Curve Stable?
During the 1960s, the basic Phillips curve relationship seemed to hold because a stable trade-off appeared to exist between unemployment and inflation.
Then in 1968, in his presidential address to the American Economic Association, Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago argued that the Phillips curve did not represent a permanent trade-off between unemployment and inflation.
The Long-Run Phillips Curve
Natural rate of unemployment The unemployment rate that exists when the economy is at potential GDP.
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The Long-Run Phillips Curve
A Vertical Long-Run Aggregate Supply Curve Means a Vertical Long-Run Phillips Curve
Natural rate of unemployment The unemployment rate that exists when the economy is at potential GDP.
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The Role of Expectations of Future Inflation
The Basis for the Short-Run Phillips Curve
IF… THEN… AND…
actual inflation is greater than expected inflation,
the actual real wage is less than the expected real wage,
labor is cheap …
the unemployment rate falls.
actual inflation is
less than expected inflation,
the actual real wage is greater than the expected real wage,
labor is dear …
the unemployment rate rises.
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Phillips Curves
The Short-Run Phillips Curve of the 1960s and the Long-Run Phillips Curve
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Phillips Curves
The Inflation Rate and the Natural Rate of Unemployment in the Long Run
Nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) The unemployment rate at which the inflation rate has no tendency to increase or decrease.
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Does the Natural Rate of Unemployment Ever Change?
Makingthe
Connection
Frictional or structural unemployment can change—thereby changing the natural rate—for several reasons:
• Demographic changes.
• Labor market institutions.
Strength of unions
Generous unemployment benefits
• Past high rates of unemployment.
• Other costs of production and the real wage
Oil price and the “natural rate”
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• Low inflation.
• Moderate but stable inflation.
• High and unstable inflation.
Expectations of the Inflation Rate and Monetary Policy
Rational expectations Expectations formed by using all available information about an economic variable.
The experience in the United States over the past 50 years indicates that how workers and firms adjust their expectations of inflation depends on how high the inflation rate is. There are three possibilities:
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Expectations of the Inflation Rate and Monetary Policy
The Effect of Rational Expectations on Monetary Policy
Rational Expectations and the Phillips Curve
Rational expectations Expectations formed by using all available information about an economic variable, including what you’ve learned in college.
Rational expectations
Policy ineffectiveness Don’t bother with
expansionary policy
Laissez - faire
Real business cycle models Models that focus on real rather than monetary explanations of fluctuations in real GDP.
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Many economists remain skeptical that the short-run Phillips curve is vertical.
(1) workers and firms actually may not have rational expectations, and
(2) the rapid adjustment of wages and prices needed for the short-run Phillips curve to be vertical will not actually take place.
Is the Short-Run Phillips Curve Really Vertical?
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How the Fed Fights InflationPaul Volcker and Disinflation
The Fed Tames Inflation, 1979–1989
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FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN TERM
AVERAGE ANNUAL INFLATION RATE DURING TERM
William McChesney Martin April 1952-January 1970 2.0%
Arthur Burns February 1970-January 1978 6.5
G. William Miller March 1978-August 1979 9.2
Paul Volcker August 1979-August 1987 6.2
Alan Greenspan August 1987-(January 2006) 3.0
Ben Bernanke January 2006– 3.0
How the Fed Fights Inflation
De-emphasizing the Money Supply
The Fed learned an important lesson during the1970s:
Workers, firms, and investors in stock and bond markets have to view Fed announcements as credible if monetary policy is to be effective.
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How the Fed Fights InflationMonetary Policy Credibility after Greenspan
Central banks are more credible if they adopt and follow rules.
Rules (e.g., Taylor Rule) vs. discretion
A middle course between rules and discretion:
Inflation targeting.
The best way to achieve commitment to rules
remove political pressures on the central bank.
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An Inside LOOK The Fed Rethinks the Phillips Curve
Policy Makers at Fed Rethink Inflation’s Roots
The short- and long-run Phillips curves.
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K e y T e r m s
Disinflation
Natural rate of unemployment
Nonaccelerating inflation rate of
unemployment (NAIRU)
Phillips curve
Rational expectations
Real business cycle models
Structural relationship