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Does Competition Enhancement Have Permanent Inflation Effects?

April 26, 2017competition Enhancement inflation PERMANENT

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Does Competition Enhancement Have Permanent Inflation Effects?

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Author InfoP. Cavelaars Abstract This paper presents evidence that a higher degree of product market competition leads to a permanently lower inflation rate. Among a broad set of possible candidate variables, the indicator for product market competition used in this paper (the markup) is superior in explaining inflation differentials across twenty-one OECD countries and also across the subset of EU member states. This confirms the results by Neiss (2001). Using an index for regulation of competition, it is confirmed that the markup is indeed a good proxy for product market competition. Download InfoTo download: If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.