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Economic Review

Jul/Aug, 1990

Real Output and Unit Labor Costs as Predictors of Inflation

Yash P. Mehra

Granger-causality tests used here find that: [1] unit labor costs add no predictive power to inflation forecasts; and [2] the gap between actual and potential output does help predict inflation, but only in the short run.

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