A Rattling Unproblematic Neo-Fisherian Model

H5N1 abrupt colleague latterly pushed me to write downward a actually uncomplicated model that tin hand the sack clarify the intuition of how raising involvement rates mightiness raise, rather than lower, inflation. Here is an answer.

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I'll operate the measure intertemporal-substitution relation, that higher existent involvement rates receive you lot to postpone consumption, \[ c_t = E_t c_{t+1} - \sigma(i_t - E_t \pi_{t+1}) \] I'll brace it hither alongside the simplest possible Phillips curve, that inflation is higher when output is higher. \[ \pi_t = \kappa c_t \] I'll too assume that people know nearly the involvement charge per unit of measurement ascension ahead of time, hence \(\pi_{t+1}=E_t\pi_{t+1}\).

Now substitute \(\pi_t\) for \(c_t\), \[ \pi_t = \pi_{t+1} - \sigma \kappa(i_t - \pi_{t+1})\] So the solution is \[ E_t \pi_{t+1} = \frac{1}{1+\sigma\kappa} \pi_t + \frac{\sigma \kappa}{1+\sigma\kappa}i_t \]

Inflation is stable. You tin hand the sack solve this backwards to \[ \pi_{t} = \frac{\sigma \kappa}{1+\sigma\kappa} \sum_{j=0}^\infty \left( \frac{1}{1+\sigma\kappa}\right)^j i_{t-j} \]

Here is a plot of what happens when the Fed raises nominal involvement rates, using \(\sigma=1, \kappa=1\):

When involvement rates rise, inflation rises steadily.

Now, intuition. (In economic science intuition describes equations. If you lot direct keep intuition but can't quite come upward up alongside the equations, you lot direct keep a hunch non a result.) During the fourth dimension of high existent involvement rates -- when the nominal charge per unit of measurement has risen, but inflation has non yet caught upward -- consumption must grow faster.

People eat less ahead of the fourth dimension of high existent involvement rates, hence they direct keep to a greater extent than savings, as well as earn to a greater extent than involvement on those savings. Afterwards, they tin hand the sack eat more. Since to a greater extent than consumption pushes upward prices, giving to a greater extent than inflation, inflation must too ascension during the menstruum of high consumption growth.

One agency to facial expression at this is that consumption as well as inflation was depressed earlier the rise, because people knew the ascension was going to happen. In that sense, higher involvement rates produce lower consumption, but rational expectations reverses the arrow of time: higher hereafter involvement rates lower consumption as well as inflation today.

(The illustration of a surprise ascension inwards involvement rates is a fleck to a greater extent than subtle. It's possible inwards that illustration that \(\pi_t\) as well as \(c_t\) jump downward unexpectedly at fourth dimension \(t\) when \(i_t\) jumps up. Analyzing that case, similar all the other complications, takes a newspaper non a spider web log post. The quest hither was to demo a uncomplicated model that illustrates the possibility of a neo-Fisherian result, non to combat that the effect is general. My skeptical colleauge wanted to encounter how it's fifty-fifty possible.)

I actually similar that the Phillips bend hither is hence completely onetime fashioned. This is Phillips' Phillips curve, alongside a permanent inflation-output tradeoff. That fact shows squarely where the neo-Fisherian effect comes from. The forward-looking intertemporal-substitution IS equation is the primal ingredient.

Model 2:

You mightiness object that alongside this static Phillips curve, at that spot is a permanent inflation-output tradeoff. Maybe we're getting the permanent ascension inwards inflation from the permanent ascension inwards output? No, but let's encounter it. Here's the same model alongside an accelerationist Phillips curve, alongside slow adaptive expectations. Change the Phillips bend to \[ c_{t} = \kappa(\pi_{t}-\pi_{t-1}^{e}) \] \[ \pi_{t}^{e} = \lambda\pi_{t-1}^{e}+(1-\lambda)\pi_{t} \] or, equivalently, \[ \pi_{t}^{e}=(1-\lambda)\sum_{j=0}^{\infty}\lambda^{j}\pi_{t-j}. \]

Substituting out consumption again, \[ (\pi_{t}-\pi_{t-1}^{e})=(\pi_{t+1}-\pi_{t}^{e})-\sigma\kappa(i_{t}-\pi_{t+1}) \] \[ (1+\sigma\kappa)\pi_{t+1}=\pi_{t}+\pi_{t}^{e}-\pi_{t-1}^{e}+\sigma\kappa i_{t} \] \[ \pi_{t+1}=\frac{1}{1+\sigma\kappa}\left( \pi_{t}+\pi_{t}^{e}-\pi_{t-1} ^{e}\right) +\frac{\sigma\kappa}{1+\sigma\kappa}i_{t}. \] Explicitly, \[ (1+\sigma\kappa)\pi_{t+1}=\pi_{t}+\gamma(1-\lambda)\left[ \sum_{j=0}^{\infty }\lambda^{j}\Delta\pi_{t-j}\right] +\sigma\kappa i_{t} \]

Simulating this model, alongside \(\lambda=0.9\).



As you lot tin hand the sack see, nosotros nonetheless direct keep a completely positive response. Inflation ends upward moving ane for ane alongside the charge per unit of measurement change. Consumption booms as well as hence slow reverts to zero. The words are actually nearly the same.

The positive consumption response does non hold out alongside to a greater extent than realistic or ameliorate grounded Phillips curves. With the measure forrad looking novel Keynesian Phillips bend inflation looks nearly the same, but output goes downward throughout the episode: you lot instruct stagflation.

The absolutely simplest model is, of course, simply \[i_t = r + E_t \pi_{t+1}\]. Then if the Fed raises
the nominal involvement rate, inflation must follow. But my challenge was to while out the marketplace position forces
that force inflation up. I'm less able to say the corresponding storey inwards real uncomplicated terms.

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