The Recent Steepening of Phillips Curves

Bart Hobijn, Russell Miles, James Royal and Jing Zhang

Chicago Fed Letter, 2023, vol. No 475

Abstract: The Phillips curve captures the empirical inverse relationship between the level of inflation and unemployment. The reciprocal of its slope, sometimes referred to as the “sacrifice ratio,” represents the increase in the unemployment rate associated with a 1 percentage point reduction in the inflation rate. In this Chicago Fed Letter, we provide evidence that the Phillips curve has steepened in many industrialized countries since the start of the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. This suggests a lower sacrifice ratio now than before 2020.

Keywords: macroeconomics; monetary economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E50 F01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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