Deep Habits in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve

CAMA Working Paper 9/2012

39 Pages Posted: 1 Mar 2012

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Thomas Lubik

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Wing Leong Teo

University of Nottingham

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Date Written: February 2012

Abstract

We derive and estimate a New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) in a model where consumers are assumed to have deep habits. Habits are deep in the sense that they apply to individual consumption goods instead of aggregate consumption. This alters the NKPC in a fundamental manner as it introduces expected and contemporaneous consumption growth as well as the expected marginal value of future demand as additional driving forces for inflation dynamics. We construct the driving process in the deep habits NKPC by using the model’s optimality conditions to impute time series for unobservable variables. The resulting series is considerably more volatile than unit labor cost. General Methods of Moments (GMM) estimation of the NKPC shows an improved fit and a much lower degree of indexation than in the standard NKPC. Our analysis also reveals that the crucial parameters for the performance of the deep habit NKPC are the habit parameter and the substitution elasticity between differentiated products. The results are broadly robust to alternative specifications.

Keywords: Phillips curve, GMM, Marginal costs, Deep habits

JEL Classification: E31, E32

Suggested Citation

Lubik, Thomas and Leong Teo, Wing, Deep Habits in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (February 2012). CAMA Working Paper 9/2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2012849 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2012849

Thomas Lubik (Contact Author)

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Wing Leong Teo

University of Nottingham ( email )

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United Kingdom

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