Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247196 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Queen’s Economics Department Working Paper No. 1454
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
Historians have suggested there were waves of inflation or price revolutions in the UK (and earlier England) in the 13th, 16th, and 18th centuries, prior to the ongoing inflation since 1914. We study retail price inflation since 1251 and model its forecasts. The model is an AR(n) but allows for gradually evolving or drifting parameters and stochastic volatility. The long-horizon forecasts suggest only one inflation wave, that of the 20th century. We also use the model to measure inflation predictability and price-level instability from the beginning of the sample and to provide measures of real interest rates since 1695.
Subjects: 
inflation
price revolutions
stochastic volatility
time-varying parameters
JEL: 
E31
E37
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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