@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp635, author={Snower, Dennis J. and Karanassou, Marika}, title={An Anatomy of the Phillips Curve}, year={2002}, month={Nov}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={635}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp635}, abstract={The paper examines how the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff depends on the degree to which wage-price decisions are backward- versus forward-looking. When economic agents, facing time-contingent, staggered nominal contracts, have a positive rate of time preference, the current wage and price levels depend more heavily on past variables (e.g. past wages and prices) than on future variables. Consequently, the long-run Phillips curve becomes downward-sloping and, indeed, quit flat for plausible parameter values. This paper provides an intuitive account of how this long-run Phillips curve arises.}, keywords={Inflation-unemployment tradeoff;wage-price staggering;monetary policy;forward- and backward-looking wage-price behavior;traditional and New Phillips curve}, }