Defensive Expectations: Reinventing the Phillips Curve as a Policy Mix

ISBN-13: 9783030550479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 226 str.

LIVIU VOINEA

Spis treści

1. The Phillips Curve: what went wrong.- 2. An alternative theory of consumption.- 3. The post-crisis Phillips Curve: cumulative wage gap vs. inflation gap.- 4. Empirical evidence.- 5. Policy implications.

O autorze

Liviu Voinea is Senior Advisor to the Executive Director and member of the Board of the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that, he was Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Romania (2014-2019), Budget Minister in the Romanian Government (2012-2014) and Deputy Minister of Finance (2012). He is professor of economics at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Liviu Voinea received the Romanian Academy Award for Economics.

Blurb

This book takes us through the journey of the Phillips Curve to the present debate, dominated by the post-great recession puzzles and the challenges to the fundamental stable relationship between inflation and economic slack. Liviu makes an insightful contribution to the discussion and to our understanding of inflation dynamics by introducing the concept of cumulative wage gap as a measure of slack.Luis de Guindos, Vice President European Central Bank