Product Market Competition and Inflation Dynamics: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Monica Correa Lopez, Agustin Garcia Serrador and Ana Cristina Mingorance

No 1025, Working Papers from BBVA Bank, Economic Research Department

Abstract: We analyse the impact of product market competition on the responsiveness of inflation to macroeconomic imbalances. Results based on a 20-country OECD panel estimated for the period 1961-2006 show that if product market competition is high the response of inflation to lagged inflation and unemployment is reduced, while inflation is more responsive to changes in productivity growth in countries in which competition is above the OECD average. When product market competition is measured by barriers to firms’ entry, we also find that low entry barriers dampen the effect on inflation of movements in import prices. These results are attributed to temporary mark-up changes after demand- and supplyside shocks.

Keywords: Inflation dynamics; Product market competition; labour market corrdination; Trade union density (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 E31 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2010-10
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