Time-Frequency Relationship between Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty for the U.S.: Evidence from Historical Data

27 Pages Posted: 29 Jul 2016

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§ Claudiu Albulescu

Management Department, Politehnica University of Timisoara

Aviral Kumar Tiwari

Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya

Stephen M. Miller

University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Department of Economics; University of Connecticut - Department of Economics

Rangan Gupta

University of Pretoria - Department of Economics

Date Written: December 8, 2015

Abstract

We provide new evidence on the relationship between inflation and its uncertainty in the U.S. on an historical basis, covering the period 1775-2014. First, we use a bounded approach for measuring inflation uncertainty, as proposed by Chan et al. (2013), and we compare the results with the Stock and Watson (2007) method. Second, we employ the wavelet methodology to analyze the co-movements and causal effects between the two series. Our results provide evidence of a relationship between inflation and its uncertainty that varies across time and frequency. First, we show that in the medium- and long-runs, the Freidman–Ball hypothesis holds when the measure of uncertainty is unbounded, while if the opposite applies, the Cukierman-Meltzer reasoning prevails. Second, we discover mixed evidence about the inflation-uncertainty nexus in the short-run, findings which explain the mixed results reported to date in the empirical literature.

Keywords: historical inflation rate, uncertainty, continuous wavelet transform, bounded series, U.S.

JEL Classification: C22, E31, N11, N12

Suggested Citation

Albulescu, § Claudiu and Tiwari, Aviral Kumar and Miller, Stephen M. and Gupta, Rangan, Time-Frequency Relationship between Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty for the U.S.: Evidence from Historical Data (December 8, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2815556 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2815556

§ Claudiu Albulescu

Management Department, Politehnica University of Timisoara ( email )

P-ta Victoriei, no. 2
Timisoara, 300006
Romania

HOME PAGE: https://sites.google.com/site/claudiutiberiualbulescu/

Aviral Kumar Tiwari

Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya ( email )

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Bodh Gaya, 824234
India

Stephen M. Miller (Contact Author)

University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Department of Economics ( email )

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University of Connecticut - Department of Economics

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United States

Rangan Gupta

University of Pretoria - Department of Economics ( email )

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Pretoria, 0002
South Africa

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