Arbeitspapier

A markup model of inflation for the euro area

Equilibrium correction models of the price level are often used to model inflation. Such models assume that the long-run markup of prices over costs is fixed, but this may not be true for the Euro area economy, which has undergone major structural reforms over the last 25 years. We allow for shifts in the markup factor through estimating an equation that includes a timevarying intercept. The model fits the data better than a linear alternative, and suggests that a reduction in the price-cost markup contributed to disinflation in the Euro area during the 1980s.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 306

Classification
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Subject
cointegration
dynamic modelling
inflation
price-cost markup
time-varying intercept

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bowdler, Christopher
Jansen, Eilev S.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(where)
Frankfurt a. M.
(when)
2004

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bowdler, Christopher
  • Jansen, Eilev S.
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Time of origin

  • 2004

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