Can the facts of UK inflation persistence be explained by nominal rigidity?

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Journal: Economic Modeling
Year: 2009
Volume: 26
Issue: 5
Pages: 978-992

Authors (5)

Meenagh, David (Cardiff University) Minford, Patrick (not in RePEc) Nowell, Eric (not in RePEc) Sofat, Prakriti (not in RePEc) Srinivasan, Naveen (Madras School of Economics)

Score contribution per author:

0.201 = (α=2.01 / 5 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

It has been widely argued that inflation persistence since WWII has been widespread and durable and that it can only be accounted for by models with a high degree of nominal rigidity. We examine UK post-war data where after confirming previous studies' findings of varying persistence due to changing monetary regimes, we find that models with little nominal rigidity are best equipped to explain it.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecmode:v:26:y:2009:i:5:p:978-992
Journal Field
General
Author Count
5
Added to Database
2026-01-26