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Credit conditions, inflation, and unemployment / Chao Gu, Janet Hua Jiang, Liang Wang.FB3-5/2025-26E-PDF

"We construct a New Monetarist model with labor market search and identify two channels that affect the long-term relationship between inflation and unemployment. First, inflation lowers wages through bargaining because unemployed workers rely more heavily on cash transactions and suffer more from inflation than employed workers: this wage-bargaining channel generates a downward Phillips curve without assuming nominal rigidity. Second, inflation increases the firm’s financing costs, which discourages job creation and increases unemployment; this cash-financing channel leads to an upward-sloping Phillips curve. We calibrate our model to the U.S. economy. The improvement in firm financing conditions can explain the observation that the slope of the long-run Phillips curve has switched from positive to negative post-2000"--Abstract, page ii.

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Department/Agency
  • Bank of Canada, issuing body.
TitleCredit conditions, inflation, and unemployment / Chao Gu, Janet Hua Jiang, Liang Wang.
Series title
  • Staff working paper = Document de travail du personnel, 1701-9397 ; 2025-26
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • "Last updated: September 19, 2025."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-42).
  • Includes abstracts in English and French.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2025.
  • ©2025
Author / Contributor
  • Gu, Chao, author.
Description1 online resource (ii, 61 pages) : charts.
Catalogue number
  • FB3-5/2025-26E-PDF
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