Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19503 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series 1 No. 2004,36
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper studies the importance of money for inflation in the euro area. An inflation equation is derived from a small model that combines the supply and demand for money with a Phillips curve and the assumption that inflation expectations develop adaptively. The model's solution attributes an impact on inflation not to actual money growth but to its core component. The core component is defined as the long-lasting, low-frequency component of nominal money growth in excess of real money demand. Using quarterly euro area data from the 1980-2004 period we apply different filters (Hodrick-Prescott, Baxter-King, wavelets) as empirical measures of core money. The estimation results uniformly indicate that inflation and core money growth are closely linked, exhibiting a one-to-one relationship in the long-run. Higher-frequency money growth, in contrast, contributes nil to the explanation of actual inflation. As a stylised fact regarding frequency domain properties, cycles of money growth below eight years are found to be insignificant for inflation.
Subjects: 
ECB
inflation
quantity theory
frequency analysis
Hodrick-Prescott filter
band pass filter
wavelets
JEL: 
E42
E31
E58
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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