Hochmuth and Petz (2026) explain why services inflation in the euro area has come down so slowly: before the pandemic, services became steadily more expensive relative to goods, the surge of goods prices in 2021 and 2022 pushed this relative price far below its trend, and part of today’s services inflation is services prices catching up. In the reproduction of the paper the euro area results hold up, but in Austria the story does not fit: the relative price of services is already above its trend. This post estimates the model for all 21 countries of the euro area to find out where the explanation holds and where it does not. The short answer: the mechanism is there almost everywhere, but it explains little of why services inflation has differed so much between countries since 2023.