Inflation, agricultural prices and economic convergence in Greece
研究了希腊农产品价格与总体价格水平的关系，发现短期超调且向长期通胀中性调整缓慢，并预测经济趋同计划将导致1994-1998年实际农产品价格下降15%。
The relationship between agricultural prices and the general price level in Greece is estimated using econometric methods for non-stationary variables, preceded by cointegration and unit root tests which deal with the complications arising from the impact of the 1973 oil shock on the price series. It is found that agricultural prices overshoot in the short-run, while the adjustment speed to the long-run inflation neutrality is slow. The results contradict previous findings for Greece while the methods used by various researchers in the past are criticised. The existence of overshooting partly explains the evolution of agricultural prices in Greece during the past two decades, while the lower inflation rates envisaged by the economic convergence programme to meet the Maastricht criteria, will cause a 15 per cent decline in real agricultural prices during the period 1994 to 1998. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.