Did the Global Financial Crisis Break the U.S. Phillips Curve?

Author/Editor:

Stefan Laseen ; Marzie Taheri Sanjani

Publication Date:

July 5, 2016

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

Inflation dynamics, as well as its interaction with unemployment, have been puzzling since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). In this empirical paper, we use multivariate, possibly time-varying, time-series models and show that changes in shocks are a more salient feature of the data than changes in coefficients. Hence, the GFC did not break the Phillips curve. By estimating variations of a regime-switching model, we show that allowing for regime switching solely in coefficients of the policy rule would maximize the fit. Additionally, using a data-rich reduced-form model we compute conditional forecast scenarios. We show that financial and external variables have the highest forecasting power for inflation and unemployment, post-GFC.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2016/126

Subject:

Financial crises Global financial crisis of 2008-2009 Inflation Labor Prices Production Total factor productivity Unemployment Unemployment rate

English

Publication Date:

July 5, 2016

ISBN/ISSN:

9781498348645/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA2016126

Pages:

42

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