Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75518 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 377
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
As a result of the Balassa effect relative prices change rapidly between and within the euro countries. Thus it is impossible to find a common monetary policy that will result in price stability in all countries. Based on empirical estimates of the Balassa model, the paper calculates a minimum aggregate inflation rate which is compatible with the requirement that no country face a deflation. This minimum aggeragate inflation rate is 0.94% in the euro-11 countries and 1.13% in an extended Europe which incorporates the east European countries.
Subjects: 
Inflation target
Balassa-Samuelson effect
ECB
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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