Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152900 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 466
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the degree of price rigidity and of inflation persistence across different product categories with particular focus on regulated prices and services for the individual EU15 countries, as well as for the EU15 and the euro area aggregates. We show that services and HICP sub-indices considered being subject to price regulation exhibit larger degrees of nominal price rigidities, with less frequent but larger price index changes as well as stronger asymmetries between price index increases and decreases. With regard to what extent services and regulated prices contribute to the degree of overall inflation persistence, we find that, for most of the EU15 countries as well as for the EU15 and the euro area aggregates, excluding services from the full HICP results in a reduction in the measured degree of inflation persistence; for regulated indices such an effect is also discernible, albeit to a lesser extent.
Subjects: 
Inflation persistence
price rigidity
regulated prices
services
JEL: 
E31
C22
C23
C43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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