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A Semi-Classical Model of Price Level Adjustment

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Bennett T. McCallum

NBER Working Paper No. 4706 (Also Reprint No. r1997)
Issued in August 1995
NBER Program(s):   EFG   ME

This paper investigates the theoretical and empirical properties of a model of aggregate supply behavior that was introduced in the 1970s but has received inadequate attention. The model postulates that price changes occur so as to gradually eliminate discrepancies between actual and market-clearing values and to reflect expected changes in market-clearing values. Its implications are more 'classical' than most alternative formulations that reflect gradual price adjustment. Empirical results, which utilize a proxy for market-clearing output that is a function of fixed capital and the real price of oil, are moderately encouraging but not entirely supportive.

Published: Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, vol. 41, pp. 251-284 December 1994

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