Euro Area Deflationary Pressure Index

Luca Brugnolini and Giuseppe Ragusa ()

Computational Economics, 2022, vol. 60, issue 3, No 4, 883-900

Abstract: Abstract We focus on forecasting the probability that euro-area inflation will fall into one of three intervals by employing an ordered multinomial model augmented with macroeconomic variables. We directly forecast the probability that the expected euro area HICP price index inflation rate (12-month percent changes) over the next 12 and 24 months will be less than 1.5 percent, exceed 2 percent, or be between these two values. The model includes many predictors, and deal with dimensionality issues by an approach which mixes factor models with Bayesian shrinkage. Our results show that macroeconomic variables’ inclusion improves the model’s forecast quality, especially at the longer horizon considered. The Deflationary Pressure Index coincides with the probability that inflation is below 1.5 percent on average in the next 24 months, and it is useful as a policy monitoring tool.

Keywords: Ordered probit; Factor model; Bayesian shrinkage; ECB; HICP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 C35 E31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s10614-021-10170-1

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