This paper examines persistence in Turkish inflation rates using data from consumer and wholesale price indices. The … inflationary process in Turkey is believed to be highly inertial, which should lead to strongly persistent inflation series …. Persistence of seventy-five inflation series at various aggregation levels are examined by estimating models that allow long …

This paper investigates whether using natural logarithms (logs) of price indices for forecasting inflation rates is … preferable to employing the original series. Univariate forecasts for annual inflation rates for a number of European countries …. This outcome sheds doubt on the common practice in the academic literature to forecast inflation rates based on differences …

-processed products are especially procyclical in levels and inflation rates. Thus, comparisons between historical and post-war series can …

. Adding inflation as a second variable, we uncover two states in which expected consumption growth is low, one with high and … one with negative expected inflation. Embedded in a general equilibrium asset pricing model with learning, these dynamics …

inflation. To this end, the bivariate noisy Mackey-Glass process recently developed by Kyrtsou and Labys (2006) has been applied … influences of speculative price behaviour on inflation …