Which is the best model for the US inflation rate: a structural changes model or a long memory process?

Lanouar Charfeddine and Dominique Guegan
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Dominique Guegan: Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the dynamics of the US inflation series using two classes of models: structural changes models and Long memory processes. For the first class, we use the Markov Switching (MS-AR) model of Hamilton (1989) and the Structural Change (SCH-AR) model using the sequential method proposed by Bai and Perron (1998, 2003). For the second class, we use the ARFIMA process developed by Granger and Joyeux (1980). Moreover, we investigate whether the observed long memory behavior is a true behavior or a spurious behavior created by the presence of breaks in time series. Our empirical results provide evidence for changes in mean, breaks dates coincide exactly with some economic and financial events such Vietnam War and the two oil price shocks. Moreover, we show that the observed long memory behavior is spurious and is due to the presence of breaks in data set

Keywords: Structural breaks models; long range dependance; inflation series (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C32 E3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2007-11
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Published in Journal of Applied Economics, 10, (1), 2011, pp.5-25

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