Models using service inflation better at predicting economic trends, Cleveland Fed paper finds

Tying unemployment rate with inflation in services can improve economic forecasting

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Economic forecasting accuracy improves notably when based on models that exploit relationships between services inflation and the unemployment rate, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland research paper.

Forecasting Inflation: Phillips Curve Effects on Services Price Measures, by Ellis Tallman and Saeed Zaman, estimates an empirical model of inflation that exploits a Phillips curve relationship between a measure of unemployment and a sub-aggregate measure of inflation.

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