Download or read book Do Professional Forecasters Believe in the Phillips Curve? written by Michael P. Clements and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expectations-augmented Phillips curve (PC) is a cornerstone of many macroeconomic models. We consider the extent to which professional forecasters' inflation and unemployment rate forecasts are `theory consistent', and find much heterogeneity. Perceptions about the responsiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate are shown to depend on whether the respondent was active earlier or later during the period 1981--2019, and on whether the respondent happened to forecast at times of tight labour markets.At the shortest horizon, theory-consistency is related to more accurate forecasts, but not significantly so at longer horizons. At longer horizons PC-model heterogeneity accounts for the lion's share of the observed disagreement in reported inflation forecasts.