Defensive Expectations

Liviu Voinea is Senior Advisor to the Executive Director and member of the Board of the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that, he was Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Romania (2014-2019), Budget Minister in the Romanian Government (2012-2014) and Deputy Minister of Finance (2012). He is professor of economics at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Liviu Voinea received the Romanian Academy Award for Economics.

• 1. The Phillips Curve: what went wrong.- 2. An alternative theory of consumption.- 3. The post-crisis Phillips Curve: cumulative wage gap vs. inflation gap.- 4. Empirical evidence.- 5. Policy implications.