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Relative Prices and Inflation: New Evidence from Different Inflationary Contexts
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Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between inflation and relative price variability, in the direction of the latter, in two countries with very different inflationary experiences: Argentina and Spain. To address this objective, using disaggregated price indexes (the Wholesale Price Index for Argen... view more
This paper analyzes the relationship between inflation and relative price variability, in the direction of the latter, in two countries with very different inflationary experiences: Argentina and Spain. To address this objective, using disaggregated price indexes (the Wholesale Price Index for Argentina and the Consumer Price Index for Spain), we delimitate different inflationary regimes and compute a set of regressions for each country. Our results suggest evidence in favour of the non-neutrality of inflation (mostly in hyperinflation periods) and do not support either the menu costs or the signal extraction approaches. We also detect significant structural changes in the relationship depending on the inflationary regime... view less
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Page/Pages
p. 1931-1944
Journal
Applied Economics, 38 (2006) 16
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840500427171
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)