Nautz, Dieter (contributor); Scharff, Juliane (contributor) - 2006
In recent macroeconomic theory, relative price variability (RPV) generates the central distortions of inflation. This … paper provides first evidence on the empirical relation between inflation and RPV in the euro area focusing on threshold … effects of inflation. We find that expected inflation significantly increases RPV if inflation is either very low (below -1 …