Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18406 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 674
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
Using unit labor cost (ULC) data from Euro area countries as well as US States and German L¨ander we investigate inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC growth in EMU, however, country-specific deviations from the rest of the currency union are much more pronounced and much more persistent in Europe. This holds before and after the introduction of the common currency. Due to its implications for the real exchange rate in levels this gives rise to serious concern.
Subjects: 
Unit labor costs
inflation
EMU
convergence
panel unit root tests
convergence clubs
JEL: 
C32
O47
E31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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