Neely, Christopher J.; Rapach, David E. - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 30 (2011) 7, pp. 1471-1490
components in international inflation rates. This paper characterizes such links in international inflation rates with a dynamic … latent factor model that decomposes 64 national inflation rates into world, regional, and idiosyncratic components. The world … and regional components account for 35% and 16%, respectively, of annual inflation variability on average across countries …