Abstract:
The paper discusses methodological questions related to econometric time-series modelling of I(2) data. Long-run and medium-run relationships between two general price indices, the US CPI and WPI and four commodity prices indices, the WBI, CRBI, GSCI, and ECI are investigated in a multivariate sep-up. The statistical concepts of cointegration and polynomial cointegration are related to long-run and short-run price homogeneity.