Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105920 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IMK Working Paper No. 6/2009
Publisher: 
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung (IMK), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
We use frequency-wise Granger-causality tests and error-correction models to investigate the driving forces behind longer-run inflation developments in the euro area. Employing an eclectic approach we consider various relevant theories. With a general-to-specific testing strategy we distill the unemployment rate and long-term interest rates as causal for low-frequency variations of inflation. Money growth is found to be causal for inflation only if other variables are omitted, which we therefore interpret as a spurious result.
Subjects: 
money growth
Granger causality
quantity theory
JEL: 
E31
E40
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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