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The low predictive power of simple Phillips curves in Chile
- Source: CEPAL Review, Volume 2015, Issue 116, Aug 2015, p. 171 - 195
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- 28 Mar 2016
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Abstract
This study uses some backward-looking versions of Phillips curves, estimated from both revised and real-time data, to explore the existence, robustness and size of the contribution that a variety of activity measures may make to the task of predicting inflation in Chile. The main results confirm the findings of the recent international literature: the predictive power of the activity measures considered here is episodic, unstable and of moderate size. This weak predictive contribution is robust to the use of final and real-time data.
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