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Openness and the Output-Inflation Tradeoff

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Christopher Bowdler () (Nuffield College, Oxford)

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Standard open economy models predict that openness to trade should exert a positive effect on the slope of the output-inflation tradeoff, or Phillips curve, but such a proposition finds very little support in the existing empirical literature. We propose a new test of this hypothesis based on new measures of the slope of the Phillips curve and more general cross-country regression models. The results provide strong empirical support for the standard theoretical prediction.

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Paper provided by Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford in its series Economics Papers with number 2003-W04.

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Keywords: Openness Inflation Phillips curve

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E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics

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