Inflation convergence in the EMU

M Karanasos, Yiannis Karavias, P Komtroumpis, A Kartsaklas, V Arakelian

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Abstract

We study the convergence properties of infl‡ation rates among the countries of the European Monetary Union over the period 1980-2013. Recently developed panel unit root/stationarity tests cannot reject the stationarity hypothesis. This implies that some countries have been in the process of converging absolutely or relatively. By using a clustering algorithm we statistically detect three absolute
convergence clubs in the pre-euro period, which comprise early accession countries. In particular, Luxembourg clusters with Austria and Belgium, while a second sub-group includes Germany and France and the third The Netherlands and Finland. We also detect two separate clusters of early accession countries in the post-1997 period: a sub-group with Germany, Austria, Belgium and Lux-
embourg, and one with France and Finland. For the rest of the countries/cases we …find evidence of divergent behaviour. Robustness is checked by testing pairwise convergence in a Bayesian framework. The outcome broadly con…rms our fi…ndings.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages20
JournalJournal of Empirical Finance
Early online date2 Aug 2016
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 2 Aug 2016

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