Does inflation harm economic growth?: evidence for the OECD

The purpose of this paper is to study the correlation among growth and inflation at the OECD level, within the framework of the so-called convergence equations, and to discuss whether this correlation withstands a number of improvements in the empirical models, which try to address the most common c...

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Main Authors: Andrés, Javier (Author), Hernando, Ignacio (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. 1997
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 6062
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Summary:The purpose of this paper is to study the correlation among growth and inflation at the OECD level, within the framework of the so-called convergence equations, and to discuss whether this correlation withstands a number of improvements in the empirical models, which try to address the most common criticisms of this evidence. The main findings are the following: 1) the negative correlation among growth and inflation is not explained by the experience of high-inflation economies; 2) the estimated costs of inflation are still significant once country-specific effects are allowed for in the empirical model; and 3) the observed correlation cannot be dismissed on the grounds of reverse causation (from GDP to inflation).
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