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Core Inflation: A Review of Some Conceptual Issues

Mark A. Wynne
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas


May 1999

ECB Working Paper No. 5

Abstract:     
This paper reviews various approaches to the measurement of core inflation that have been proposed in recent years. The objective is to determine whether the ECB should pay special attention to one or other of these measures in assessing inflation developments in the euro area. I put particular emphasis on the conceptual and practical problems that arise in the measurement of core inflation, and propose some criteria that could be used by the ECB to choose a core inflation measure.

Keywords: Core Inflation, Monetary Policy, Inflation Measurement, Trimmed Mean, Weighted Median, SVAR, Edgeworth Index

JEL Classifications: C8, E0, E31

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Date posted: December 10, 2002 ; Last revised: March 16, 2004

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Wynne, Mark A., Core Inflation: A Review of Some Conceptual Issues (May 1999). ECB Working Paper No. 5. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=355143


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Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas ( email )
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