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    Inflation dynamics and real marginal costs: new evidence from U.S. manufacturing industries

    Petrella, Ivan and Santoro, E. (2012) Inflation dynamics and real marginal costs: new evidence from U.S. manufacturing industries. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 36 (5), pp. 779-794. ISSN 0165-1889.

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    Abstract

    This paper deals with the analysis of price-setting in U.S. manufacturing industries. Recent studies have heavily criticized the ability of the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) to fit aggregate inflation [see, e.g., Rudd and Whelan, 2006, Can Rational Expectations Sticky-Price Models Explain Inflation Dynamics?, American Economic Review, vol. 96(1), pp. 303-320]. We challenge this evidence, showing that forward-looking behavior as implied by the New Keynesian model of price-setting is widely supported at the sectoral level. In fact, current and expected future values of the income share of intermediate goods emerge as an effective driver of inflation dynamics. Unlike alternative proxies for the forcing variable, the cost of intermediate goods presents dynamic properties in line with the predictions of the New Keynesian theory.

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: Newer version of http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/5957
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): New Keynesian Phillips Curve, Aggregation, Sectoral Data, Intermediate Goods
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 01 Feb 2012 17:38
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:57
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4584

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