This paper examines the magnitude and duration of the GST effect on inflation in Australia’s eight capital cities using the Box and Tiao intervention analysis and quarterly data spanning from 1948:4 to 2003:1. We found that GST had a significant but transitory impact on inflation only in the...

This paper examines the way in which output gap influences quarterly inflation during the period 1970q1–2013q1 in Canada, the UK and the US by adopting a Markov regime-switching model. In addition to the regime-dependent effects of the output gap, this study controls for the regime-invariant...