• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Structural change in the US Phillips curve, 1948-2021: The role of power and institutions
  • Contributor: Setterfield, Mark [Author]; Blecker, Robert A. [Author]
  • imprint: Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK), Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM), 2022
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: E25 ; inflation ; unemployment ; institutions ; E31 ; Phillips Curve ; N12 ; E12 ; natural rate hypothesis ; bargaining power ; E24
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  • Description: This paper provides an institutional-analytical account of changes in the structure of the US Phillips curve (PC) during the post-war period. It does so by restoring conflict and power to the forefront of macro theory and, in particular, the wage- and price-setting behaviour of workers and firms. The resulting account is consistent with the main stylized facts that characterize the evolution of the US PC since 1948: the disappearance and subsequent reappearance of a 'standard' PC (relating the level of the inflation rate, not the change in this rate, to the rate of unemployment); and the flattening of the PC since the 1990s.
  • Access State: Open Access