Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153244 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 810
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Is inflation persistence in the new EU Member States (NMS) comparable to that in the euro area countries? We argue that persistence may not be as different between the two country groups as one might expect. We confirm that one should work carefully with the usual estimation methods when analyzing the NMS, given the scope of the convergence process they went through. We show that due to frequent breaks in inflation time series in the NMS, parametric statistical measures assuming a constant mean deliver substantially higher persistence estimates for the NMS than for the euro area countries. Employing time-varying mean leads to the reversal of this result and suggests similar or lower inflation persistence for the NMS compared to euro area countries. Structural measures show that backward-looking behavior may be more important component in explaining inflation dynamics in the NMS than in the euro area countries.
Subjects: 
C11
C22
C32
Classification-JEL: E31
Keywords: Inflation persistence
New Hybrid Phillips curve
new Member States
time-varying mean
JEL: 
E31
C22
C11
C32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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