Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152451 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 17
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The paper focuses on the measurement of the NAIRU (Non-Accelerating-Inflation-Rate-of-Unemployment) for the euro area and assesses the usefulness of different methodologies developed in the literature to estimate this unobservable variable at the aggregate level. After reviewing the theoretical framework underlying the most common estimation approaches, it presents several estimates of the area-wide NAIRU based on a number of direct (or statistical) techniques. The latter range from simple univariate filtering approaches to more complex multivariate methods based on Phillips curve relationships. The different estimates of the aggregate NAIRU appear to be consistent and robust with respect to alternative specifications, methodologies and choice of the inflation indicator. They also show significant inflation forecasting ability and are able to produce sensible measures of the output gap, therefore providing some ground to argue that unemployment and the unemployment gap may be a useful variable to analyse short-term economic developments at the euro area level.
JEL: 
E24
E31
C14
C22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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