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Alessandro Sardone

Alessandro Sardone
Current Position

since 9/20

Economist in the Department of Macroeconomics

Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association

Research Interests
  • fiscal and monetary policy
  • forecasting

Alessandro Sardone joined the Department of Macroeconomics as a doctoral student in September 2020. His research focuses on environmental macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, and forecasting.

Alessandro Sardone received his bachelor's degree from University of Trento and his master's degree from Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

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Publications

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Inflation Puzzles, the Phillips Curve and Output Expectations: New Perspectives from the Euro Zone

Alessandro Sardone Roberto Tamborini Giuliana Passamani

in: Empirica, February 2022

Abstract

Confidence in the Phillips Curve (PC) as predictor of inflation developments along the business cycle has been shaken by recent “inflation puzzles” in advanced countries, such as the “missing disinflation” in the aftermath of the Great Recession and the “missing inflation” in the years of recovery, to which the Euro-Zone “excess deflation” during the post-crisis depression may be added. This paper proposes a newly specified Phillips Curve model, in which expected inflation, instead of being treated as an exogenous explanatory variable of actual inflation, is endogenized. The idea is simply that if the PC is used to foresee inflation, then its expectational component should in some way be the result of agents using the PC itself. As a consequence, the truly independent explanatory variables of inflation turn out to be the output gaps and the related forecast errors by agents, with notable empirical consequences. The model is tested with the Euro-Zone data 1999–2019 showing that it may provide a consistent explanation of the “inflation puzzles” by disentangling the structural component from the expectational effects of the PC.

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