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http://dx.doi.org/10.7465/jkdi.2015.26.6.1377

An analysis of changes in the influence of GDP gap on inflation  

Chang, Youngjae (Department of Information Statistics, Korea National Open University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.26, no.6, 2015 , pp. 1377-1386 More about this Journal
Abstract
GDP gap is closely related with economic activity of a country as a whole, especially with the economic fluctuations which is called business cycle. GDP gap is regarded as an important variable for the monetary policy of the central bank because it provides information on the excess demand pressures and employment matters. However, GDP gap may not provide enough information of the effect of recent economic structural change or the environmental change of domestic and external economic condition. In this paper, the GDP is decomposed by statistical filtering techniques and various models are fitted to estimate the influence of GDP gap on Inflation and see if it has been changed. Analysis results show that the influence of GDP gap on inflation decreased in the 2000s while that of global GDP gap increased. These results also support that recent low inflation rate is due to the change of overseas economic condition, such as a slowdown in exports resulting from the global recession, as well as domestic factors.
Keywords
Business cycle; GDP gap; inflation; regression tree;
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