Evolving International Inflation Dynamics: Evidence from a Time-Varying Dynamic Factor Model

29 Pages Posted: 11 Jun 2008

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Haroon Mumtaz

Bank of England; University of London - School of Sciences

Paolo Surico

London Business School - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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Date Written: March 2008

Abstract

Several industrialised countries have had a similar inflation experience in the past 30 years, with inflation high and volatile in the 1970s and the 1980s but low and stable in the most recent period. We explore the dynamics of inflation in these countries via a time-varying factor model. This statistical model is used to describe movements in inflation that are idiosyncratic or country specific and those that are common across countries. In addition, we investigate how comovement has varied across the sample period.

Our results indicate that there has been a decline in the level, persistence and volatility of inflation across our sample of industrialised countries. In addition, there has been a change in the degree of comovement, with the level and persistence of national inflation rates moving more closely together since the mid-1980s.

Keywords: factor model, Low inflation, monetary policy, time variation

JEL Classification: E30, E52

Suggested Citation

Mumtaz, Haroon and Mumtaz, Haroon and Surico, Paolo, Evolving International Inflation Dynamics: Evidence from a Time-Varying Dynamic Factor Model (March 2008). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6767, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1141672

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