Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir - Fachbereich Sozialökonomie, Universität Hamburg - 2007
Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro … area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of … inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying PANIC (Bai and Ng, 2002, 2004) and cluster procedures (Hobijn and …