Inflation Convergence and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve in the Czech Republic
Inflation Convergence and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve in the Czech Republic
Author(s): Jarko Fidrmuc, Katarína DaniškováSubject(s): Economy
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Institut ekonomických studií
Keywords: Inflation; New Keynesian Phillips Curve; marginal costs; output gap; real unit labour costs
Summary/Abstract: The New Keynesian Phillips Curve has become an important part of modern monetary policy models. It describes the relationship between inflation and real marginal cost, which is derived from micro-founded models with rational expectations, sticky prices, and forward and backward looking behaviour. This answers the previous critique of the Phillips Curve. We estimate several specifications of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve for the Czech Republic between 1996 and 2009. We show that the GMM suffers under the problem of weak instruments leading to biased estimates. In turn, the FIML is robust and yields significant estimates of structural parameters implying a strong forward looking behaviour.
Journal: Czech Economic Review
- Issue Year: 5/2011
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 99-115
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
