Natural rate of unemployment or NAIRU
The natural rate of unemployment and the NAIRU - are they the same? Why are they important? What affects them?
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Show Notes
Economics Explored host Gene Tunny discusses the natural rate of unemployment and the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment, the NAIRU. He considers whether they're the same thing, why they are important, and what affects them.
Links relevant to the episode include:
Milton Friedman's 1967-68 AEA Presidential Address on the role of monetary policy
Kansas City Fed paper on a new estimate of the natural rate of unemployment
RBA paper on Estimating the NAIRU and the Unemployment Gap
Carl E. Walsh on The Natural Rate, NAIRU, and Monetary Policy