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The Cross-country Relationship between Interest Rates and Inflation over Three Decades

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  • Michele Bullock

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

  • Mark Rider

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

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This paper looks at the relationship between inflation and interest rates across a number of industrialised countries over the past three decades. The paper is in three parts. It begins by splitting the whole period up into a number of smaller periods and looking at the inflation/interest rate relationship across countries within these periods. The most interesting conclusion of this section is that while there was a negative relationship between inflation and real short-term interest rates in the 1970s (i.e. high inflation countries had lower real short-term interest rates), in the 1980s there was a positive relationship between real short-term interest rates and inflation. The paper then discusses some explanations for this observation – why might we expect to see higher real interest rates in high inflation countries and why has this only occurred in the 1980s. Finally the paper uses a simple test to attempt to distinguish between competing explanations of the positive inflation/real interest rate relationship. Unfortunately, the test cannot distinguish conclusively between the competing hypotheses.

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  • Michele Bullock & Mark Rider, 1991. "The Cross-country Relationship between Interest Rates and Inflation over Three Decades," RBA Research Discussion Papers rdp9104, Reserve Bank of Australia.
    • Handle: RePEc:rba:rbardp:rdp9104
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