Does Inflation Slow Long-Run Growth in India?

December 15, 2014

Preview Citation

Format: Chicago

Kamiar Mohaddes, and Mehdi Raissi. Does Inflation Slow Long-Run Growth in India?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed December 21, 2024

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate

Summary

This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and GDP growth in India. We collect data on a sample of 14 Indian states over the period 1989–2013, and use the cross-sectionally augmented distributed lag (CSDL) approach of Chudik et al. (2013) as well as the standard panel ARDL method for estimation—to account for cross-state heterogeneity and dependence, dynamics and feedback effects. Our findings suggest that, on average, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This suggest the need for the Reserve Bank of India to balance the short-term growthinflation trade-off, in light of the long-term negative effects on growth of persistently-high inflation.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Econometric analysis, Inflation, Prices, Production, Production growth, Threshold analysis

Keywords: Anti-inflation effort, ARDL specification, Consumer price indexes, CPI-RL data, Cross-sectional heterogeneity, CS-DL estimate, CS-DL estimation strategy, CS-DL result, Data from the CEIC database, Dependence, Growth, Growth rate, India, Inflation, Inflation threshold effect, Inflation-growth trade-off, Panel ARDL approach, Production growth, Threshold analysis, Threshold effects, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

19
Volume:

---
DOI:

---
Issue:

---
Series:

Working Paper No. 2014/222
Stock No:

WPIEA2014222
ISBN:

9781498399982
ISSN:

1018-5941

FACTSHEETS

RESOURCES

TOPICS

Flagship Publications

Other Publications

IMF reports and publications by country

Regional Offices

All News

See Also

For Journalists

Press Center

RESOURCES

FLAGSHIPS

KEY SERIES

IMF NOTES

IMF Working Papers