Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/104791 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ROME Discussion Paper Series No. 14-11
Publisher: 
Research On Money in the Economy (ROME), s.l.
Abstract: 
The purpose of this article is to deliver new estimates of the sacrifice ratio of Euro area countries. A high sacrifice ratio means a large loss of gross domestic product (GDP) or employment for a given reduction in inflation. In order to estimate the cost of adjustments in inflation rates by the sacrifice ratio, we apply, firstly, a Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) technique following Cecchetti and Rich and, secondly, an episode-based procedure proposed by Ball based on historical disinflationary episodes. The estimation results do generally not support empirical evidence of overly high sacrifice ratios and hence, on average, indicate relatively modest costs of structural adjustments in the Euro area.
Subjects: 
sacrifice ratio
structural adjustment
Euro Area
VAR
episode method
Phillips curve
JEL: 
E31
F49
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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