Is There A Trade-Off Between Inflation Variability and Output-Gap Variability in The EMU Countries?

Philip Arestis and Kostas Mouratidis

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Abstract: This paper examines two issues. First, we compare, based on the ratio of output-gap variability to inflation variability, the monetary policy performance of eleven EMU countries for the whole period of the EMS. Second, we examine whether the introduction of an implicit inflation-targeting by the EMU member countries after the Maastricht Treaty changed the trade-off between inflation variability and output-gap variability. We employ a stochastic volatility model for the whole period of the EMS and for two sub-periods (i.e., before and after the Maastricht Treaty). We find that for the whole period the trade-off ratio varies among EMU countries, especially in the case where industrial production is utilized to construct the output-gap variable. The results also vary from the point of view of how the trade-off variabilities change for each country before and after the Maastricht Treaty. The implication of these findings is that asymmetries exist in the euro area as a result of either different monetary policy preferences or different economic structures among the EMU's member countries.

Date: 2002-10
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Journal Article: Is There a Trade‐Off Between Inflation Variability and Output‐Gap Variability in the EMU Countries? (2004)
Working Paper: Is there a trade-off between inflation variability and output-gap variability in the EMU countries? (2004)
Working Paper: Is There A Trade-Off Between Inflation Variability And Output-Gap Variability in The EMU Countries? (2003)
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