Abstract

Abstract We show that in an economy where output fluctuations are driven primarily by aggregate demand shocks, allowing a contemporaneous response of nominal wage contracts to actual market conditions in the period of the reopening of a contract, invalidates Taylor's ‘second order’ Phillips curve and Delong and Summers' destabilizing output effects of increased price flexibility.

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