Jürgen Stark: Lessons for central bankers from the history of the Phillips Curve Speech by Mr Jürgen Stark, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Annual Economic Conference “Understanding Inflation and the Implications for Monetary Policy: A Phillips Curve Retrospective”, Chatham, Massachusetts, 11 June 2008.
*  *  *  It is a great pleasure for me to be here today at this conference. I will try to look at the historical evolution of the Phillips curve and its interaction with macroeconomic outcomes from a slightly eccentric angle.