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Puzzling global stochastic trends in growth, interest and inflation and the Volcker disinflation

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Abstract

This paper aims to identify the stable long-run relationships as well as unstable driving forces of the world economy using a small aggregated cointegrated VAR model encompassing quarterly US, UK, Japanese and Euro Area data for the post-Bretton-Woods era. Three stable long-run relationships are found: output growth, the term spread and the inflation climate. The common stochastic trend of the global macro economy is dominated by the cumulated real short-term interest rate shocks, reflecting the strong increase of global real rates during the Volcker disinflation period, one of the dominating events of the last 40 years of macro history.

Acceptance Date Sep 7, 2016
Publication Date Mar 1, 2018
Journal The Manchester School
Print ISSN 1467-9957
Pages 178-194
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12175
Keywords Cointegration; Real interest rates; Volcker disinflation; Multi-country model; Divisia index
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/manc.12175

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