High versus low inflation: implications for price-level convergence

Ege Yazgan () and Hakan Yilmazkuday

Empirical Economics, 2016, vol. 50, issue 4, No 17, 1527-1563

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between the level of inflation and regional price-level convergence utilizing micro-level price data from Turkey during two clearly distinguishable periods of high and low inflation. The results indicate that higher persistence and slower convergence of price levels are evident during the low-inflation period, which corresponds to the inflation-targeting (IT) regime. During the low-inflation IT regime, inflation convergence across regions appears to occur more quickly and may be responsible for the slower pace of convergence in price levels. Overall, IT in Turkey, which was successful in lowering and maintaining inflation at acceptable levels, also appears to be associated with faster convergence in inflation rates at the expense of slower convergence in price levels.

Keywords: Price convergence; Inflation convergence; Micro-level prices; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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