On the dynamics of inflation persistence around the world
Antonio Noriega (),
Carlos Capistrán () and
Manuel Ramos-Francia ()
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Empirical Economics, 2013, vol. 44, issue 3, 1243-1265
Abstract:
We study the dynamics of inflation persistence in 45 countries for the period 1960–2008 using a recently developed test for multiple changes in persistence, which decomposes the sample information between adjacent I (0) and I (1) periods. We find that: (i) inflation persistence and average inflation tend to fall and rise at the same time; (ii) in some countries there are changes in the level of inflation which do not seem to be related to changes in inflation persistence; (iii) around half of the countries analyzed do not present any burst of I (1) behavior, and hence have stationary inflation throughout; (iv) for the other half, we detect switches of the type I (0) − I (1) − I (0), hence, inflation persistence, when it has occurred, has been temporal; and, (v) for about half of the countries in which inflation has presented I (1) behavior, persistent inflation lasted more than a decade. In addition, we find that in the last 50 years there have been mainly two episodes where long bursts of I (1) inflation took place simultaneously among groups of countries. In general, the “Great Inflation” occurred during the seventies and eighties in advanced economies, whereas it occurred during the eighties and nineties in emerging economies, particularly in Latin America. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2013
Keywords: Multiple persistence change; Stationarity; Unknown direction of change; Monetary policy; C12; C22; E31; E52; E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-012-0575-3
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