Direct use of price indices does not enable to distinguish changes in relative prices from generalised price rises. Core inflation measures typically entail excluding some components or deriving trend measures. This paper uses a structural VAR with long-run identifying restrictions to arrive at...

The paper analyses the transmission mechanism between prices and nominal wages to explain dual inflation in Spain for the 1964-1991 period. Using a vector autoregression, we find that private sector wages explain inflation and that public sector wages play a minor role. The explanatory power on...