Inflation Persistence under Semi-Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes: The European Evidence 1974–1998

Clemens Kool and Alex Lammertsma

Open Economies Review, 2005, vol. 16, issue 1, 76 pages

Abstract: In this paper, we empirically investigate the link between exchange rate accommodation and inflation persistence in Europe. We introduce the lagged level of the real exchange rate as an appropriate indicator of exchange rate accommodation. We correspondingly estimate a non-linear autoregressive inflation equation for ten European countries (excluding Germany) for the period 1974:1–1998:2. In the estimation procedure we allow for the presence of an unknown number of shifts in the mean of inflation. Overall, our results provide modest support for the existence of the theoretically hypothesized link between exchange rate accommodation and inflation persistence. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005

Keywords: inflation persistence; exchange rate accommodation; endogenous structural breaks; monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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