This paper carries out another evaluation on a highly debated property of inflation dynamics, namely its persistence. We study inflation dynamics for the United States since 1959 with a time-varying methodology where the intercept, variance and persistence are allowed to vary over time. We...

This paper analyses the interconnectedness between the slope of the Phillips Curve and the degree of trade openness. A micro founded expectations - augmented Phillips Curve for a small open economy illustrates that the slope of the Phillips Curve is negatively related to the degree of trade...