Weighted Median Inflation Around the World: A Measure of Core Inflation
The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass level disaggretion of the CPI over 1990-2021, and compares the properties of this measure to those of standard core. For quarterly data, we find that the weighted median is less volatile than standard core, more closely related to economic slack, and more closely related to headline inflation over the next year. The weighted median also has a drawback: in most countries, it has a lower average level than headline inflation. We therefore also consider a measure of core inflation that eliminates this bias, which is based on the percentile of sectoral inflation rates that matches the sample average of headline CPI inflation.
Journal of International Money and Finance V 142, 2024
Larry Ball, Chris Evans, Luca Ricci, Carlos Viana de Carvalho.
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0261560624000044
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