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- Title
Estimated Open Economy New Keynesian Phillips Curves for the G7.
- Authors
Leith, Campbell; Malley, Jim
- Abstract
In this paper we develop an open economy model of firms’ pricing behaviour under imperfect competition. This allows us to introduce various terms of trade effects influencing the firm’s pricing decision, in addition to labour costs which dominate most closed-economy specifications of the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC). Our analysis gives rise to a hybrid open economy NKPC which nests existing closed and open economy specifications adopted in empirical work. We estimate this specification for the G7 economies and find that the US, UK and Canada typically enjoy less inertia in price setting than the European G7 economies and Japan and that these estimates are both plausible and in line with survey evidence. We also find that the proportion of firms which use simple backward-looking rules of thumb in price setting is greater when the frequency of price change is smaller. Finally there is evidence of significant asymmetries in price setting amongst EMU members.
- Subjects
CANADA; UNITED States; JAPAN; LORENZ curve; IMPERFECT competition; PHILLIPS curve; ECONOMIC forecasting; PRICING; INDUSTRIAL costs; RATIONAL expectations (Economic theory); LABOR economics; MATHEMATICAL models of inflation
- Publication
Open Economies Review, 2007, Vol 18, Issue 4, p405
- ISSN
0923-7992
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11079-007-9008-x