Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29766 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 879
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
In this paper we specify a multi-factor long-memory process that enables us to estimate the fractional differencing parameters at each frequency separately, and adopt this framework to model quarterly prices in three European countries (France, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest that inflation in France and Italy is nonstationary. However, while for the former country this applies both to the zero and the seasonal frequencies, in the case of Italy the nonstationarity comes exclusively from the long-run or zero frequency. In the UK, inflation seems to be stationary with a component of long memory at both the zero and the semi-annual frequencies, especially at the former.
Subjects: 
Fractional integration
long memory
inflation
JEL: 
C22
O40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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