Kabukçuoglu, Ayse; Martínez-García, Enrique - 2015 - This draft: September 21, 2015
We evaluate the performance of inflation forecasts based on the open-economy Phillips curve by exploiting the spatial … pattern of international propagation of inflation. We model these spatial linkages using global inflation and either domestic … spatial interactions yields significantly more accurate forecasts of local inflation in 14 advanced countries (including the U …