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| Fumitaka Furuoka and Chong Mun Ho |
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| ''Phillips curves and openness: New evidence from selected Asian economies'' |
| ( 2009, Vol. 29 No.1 ) |
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| This paper chooses three Asian countries (Japan, South Korea and Malaysia) as case
studies to examine the relationship between the Phillips curve and openness. The
justification for the choice of these countries is that Japan is a moderately open economy
while Malaysia is a highly open economy. South Korea is in-between these two extremes.
The main finding of the present study is that as a country opens up to global market by
increasing the amount of imports, the slope coefficient of the Phillips curve becomes
smaller. In other words, the findings suggest that the Phillips curve tends to be flatter in
more open economies.
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| Keywords: |
JEL: E2 - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment: General (includes Measurement and Data)
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| Manuscript Received : Nov 19 2008 | | Manuscript Accepted : Mar 05 2009 |
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