Determinants of Inflation in Europe – A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Čaklovica Lejla and Adnan Efendic
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Čaklovica Lejla: Senior Officer for Government Finance Statistics, Office for Government Finance Statistics and Financial Accounts, Department for Statistics and Publication, Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Financial Internet Quarterly (formerly e-Finanse), 2020, vol. 16, issue 3, 51-79

Abstract: This article offers an empirical analysis of determinants of inflation in 28 European economies that belonged to the transition group of countries in the end of the last century. We rely on dynamic panel methodology and find that economic and structural variables, including economic openness, unemployment, real wages, institutional effects, as well as external factors, such as prices of food and oil, determine the short-run inflationary dynamics in these countries. The obtained results also indicate that inflation rate is autoregressive in the observed period (2005-2015), confirming that contemporaneous inflation rate is determined by the entire history of these determinants. Our further investigation reveals long- term effects of the majority of these variables on price dynamics. Interestingly, distinction between the current EU and transition countries in the model does not lead to different conclusions.

Keywords: determinants of inflation; transition countries; dynamic panel model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E3 E31 E50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/fiqf-2020-0018

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