Richard T. Baillie () (Department of Economics and Department of Finance, Michigan State University) Young Wook Han (Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong) Tae-Go Kwon (Industrial Bank of Korea)
Abstract
Several previous studies have found fractionally integrated, or long memory behavior, in the conditional mean of inflation. This paper notes that extremely similar phenomena are also apparent in the squared and absolute values of residuals from fractionally filtered inflation series. Hence, the inflation process appears to have a dual long memory feature in both its first and its second conditional moments. We suggest a parametric model of long memory in both the conditional mean and the conditional variance. Some Monte Carlo evidence is presented that supports estimation of the model by approximate maximum likelihood methods. We then report estimated models for the inflation series for several different industrialized countries, including the United States. For nearly all of the countries in our study, there is strong evidence of statistically significant long memory parameters in both the conditional mean and the variance. We note some of the implications for modeling inflation.
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Volume (Year): 68 (2002) Issue (Month): 3 (January) Pages: 496-510 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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