Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174217 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IES Working Paper No. 24/2017
Publisher: 
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), Prague
Abstract: 
We provide comprehensive evidence of the widespread occurrence of inflation convergence between all countries of the European Union from 1999 to 2016. We also show that convergence was more inclusive in the years after the global financial crisis-including the European sovereign debt crisis and the period of zero lower bound-and that price-stabilityoriented monetary strategies might have in fact facilitated this convergence. Our results are robust with respect to the use of three inflation benchmarks (the cross-sectional average, the inflation target of the European Central Bank, and the Maastricht criterion), structural breaks, and a core inflation measure. Our main findings imply that further enlargement of the euro area is feasible from the perspective of the convergence of inflation rates between the countries of the European Union.
Subjects: 
inflation convergence
European Union
global financial crisis
zero lower bound
monetary strategy
JEL: 
C32
E31
E58
F45
G01
K33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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