Fixing The “match”
Even under the conservative specification of the GLI floor that assumed a 2% inflation target but ignored high unemployment, our framework would have still prescribed additional easing. Policy tightening under our approach would have required a GLI floor with a much lower assumption for the inflation target, closer to 1%, or a lower threshold for real wage growth. Figure 21GLI growth is a function of labor supply growth, real wage growth, and inflation. A conservative approach to setting the l […]