Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152756 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 322
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The paper presents an incomplete competition model (ICM), where inflation is determined jointly with unit labour cost growth. The ICM is estimated on data for the Euro area and evaluated against existing models, i.e. the implicit inflation equation of the Area Wide model (AWM) - cf. Fagan, Henry and Mestre (2001) - and estimated versions of the (single equation) P* model and a hybrid New Keynesian Phillips curve. The evidence from these comparisons does not invite decisive conclusions. There is, however, some support in favour of the (reduced form) AWM inflation equation. It is the only model that encompasses a general unrestricted model and it forecast encompasses the competitors when tested on 20 quarters of one step ahead forecasts.
Subjects: 
Area Wide model
forecast encompassing
incomplete competition model
inflation
model evaluation
New Keynesian Phillips curve
P*-model
JEL: 
C22
C32
C52
C53
E31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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