Nonlinear impact of inflation on relative price variability

Mustafa Caglayan*, Alpay Filiztekin

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

Using a half-a-century long disaggregated price data for 22 food products collected from 19 cities, we show that the association between inflation and price variability is nonlinear with respect to changes in inflation rate. We obtain similar results for expected and unexpected inflation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)213-218
Number of pages6
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume79
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2003

Keywords

  • Inflation
  • Nonlinearity
  • Panel data
  • Price variability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Nonlinear impact of inflation on relative price variability'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this