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Working Paper No. 150

Is There a Long-Run Trade-Off between Inflation and Unemployment?

Working Paper
Reference
Axell, Bo and Harald Lang (1985). “Is There a Long-Run Trade-Off between Inflation and Unemployment?”. IFN Working Paper No. 150. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Authors
Bo Axell, Harald Lang

How are inflation and unemployment related in the long run? Are they negatively correlated, as in the so-called naive Phillips curve theories or uncorrelated, "as in the neo-liberals' view or are they positively correlated as Friedman suggested in his Nobel lecture?

In this paper inflation is introduced into a general equilibrium search unemployment model. We show that it is possible to get either a negatively or a positively sloping long-run Phillips curve, all depending on the source of inflation.