Noriega, Antonio E.; Ramos-Francia, Manuel - 2009
We study the dynamics of inflation persistence in 45 countries for the period 1960-2008. We use a nonparametric unit … root test robust to nonlinearities, error distributions, structural breaks and outliers, many of them typical features of … inflation data, and a test for multiple changes in persistence, which decomposes the sample information between adjacent I(0 …