‘Global inflation gap’ points to slack across advanced economies – paper

Authors find no evidence that inflation is “on the brink of surging ahead”

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Measures of a “global inflation gap” suggest that economic slack persists across advanced economies, implying inflation is unlikely to undergo a sudden surge in the near future, according to a new paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

An expectations-augmented Phillips curve is key to the result, write Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Mauricio Ulate. Only when households and firms are allowed to base their decisions on expectations about the future does a

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