Evaluation of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve: evidence from the Euro Area and United States

Insu Kim

Applied Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 25, issue 18, 1306-1315

Abstract: Empirical relevance of inflation expectations in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) is highly controversial in the macroeconomics literature. With this in mind, this article evaluates the purely forward-looking NKPC useful for policy analysis with respect to their abilities to account for the dynamic relationship between output and inflation. Our findings show that the NKPC heavily relying on firms’ forward-looking behaviour is hardly supported by the Euro Area and the US data. The failure of the NKPC in matching the data is consistently observed across the sub-samples divided before and after the early 1980s. For comparison, we also investigate the performance of the hybrid NKPC and the traditional backward-looking Phillips curve associated with ad hoc price indexation assumptions.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1420867

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