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Is There a Phillips Curve? A Full Information Partial Equilibrium Approach
Mr. Roberto Piazza
Empirical tests of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve have provided results often inconsistent with microeconomic evidence. To overcome the pitfalls of standard estimations on aggregate data, a Full Information Partial Equilibrium approach is developed to exploit sectoral level data. A model featuring sectoral NKPCs subject to a rich set of shocks is constructed. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the structural parameters are provided to allow sectoral idiosyncratic components to be linearly extracted. Estimation biases are corrected using the model's restrictions on the partial equilibrium propagation of idiosyncratic shocks. An application to the US, Japan and the UK rejects the purely forward looking, labor cost-based NKPC.
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WP; supply schedule; Phillips Curve; Full Information; Limited Information; sticky prices; FIPE moment; time series; FIPE estimation; FIPE approach; inflation gap; FIPE analysis; Inflation; Price adjustments; Civil society
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Emissions and Growth: Trends and Cycles in a Globalized World
Gail Cohen, João Tovar Jalles, Mr. Prakash Loungani, and Ricardo Marto
Recent discussions of the extent of decoupling between greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and real gross domestic product (GDP) provide mixed evidence and have generated much debate. We show that to get a clear picture of decoupling it is important to distinguish cycles from trends: there is an Environmental Okun's Law (a cyclical relationship between emissions and real GDP) that often obscures the trend relationship between emissions and real GDP. We show that, once the cyclical relationship is accounted for, the trends show evidence of decoupling in richer nations—particularly in European countries, but not yet in emerging markets. The picture changes somewhat, however, if we take into consideration the effects of international trade, that is, if we distinguish between production-based and consumption-based emissions. Once we add in their net emission transfers, the evidence for decoupling among the richer countries gets weaker. The good news is that countries with underlying policy frameworks more supportive of renewable energy and supportive of climate change tend to have greater decoupling between trend emissions and trend GDP, and for both production- and consumption-based emissions.
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WP; real GDP; time series; business cycle; Emissions; Environmental Okun’s Law; Environmental Kuznets Curve; Kuznets elasticity; Kuznets coefficient; Okun elasticity; emissions-output elasticity; Okun coefficient; Greenhouse gas emissions; Income; Imports; Exports; Business cycles; Africa; Global; Eastern Europe; East Asia