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We empirically characterize episodes of large inflation surges that have been observed worldwide in the last three decades. We document four facts. (1) Inflation following surges tends to be persistent, with the duration of disinflation exceeding that of the initial inflation increase. (2)...
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This paper analyzes the dramatic rise in U.S. inflation since 2020, which we decompose into a rise in core inflation as measured by the weighted median inflation rate and deviations of headline inflation from core. We explain the rise in core with two factors, the tightening of the labor market...
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The European Central Bank is unique in setting monetary policy for several sovereign states with heterogeneous debt levels and different maturity structures. The monetary-fiscal nexus is central to the functioning of the euro area. We focus on one particular aspect of that nexus, the effect the...
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anticipation effect: during the 31-day period following the start of the Riots, supermarkets reduce the frequency of price changes … and, conditional on a price change, the absolute magnitude of price changes increase. A quantitative menu cost model with …
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We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the … inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between … prices within a store: temporary price discounts and differences across similar products. Price changes associated with …
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primitive parameters that govern firms' pricing behavior, including the degrees of price rigidity and strategic … complementarities in price setting. Our estimates indicate a high slope for the marginal cost-based Phillips curve, which contrasts with …
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the pandemic-era surge in consumer price inflation in the euro area. Initially, supply-chain pressures increased inflation …
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find that firms' expected own-price growth has a strong positive correlation with changes in CPI inflation, particularly …
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This paper derives the curvature properties of the short-run Phillips curve in a class of canonical models of price …, when economic activity is very high (low), substitution effects within the model-implied true price index imply that …
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We show that if the central bank operates without commitment and faces constraints on its balance sheet, helicopter drops can be a useful stabilization tool during a liquidity trap. With commitment, even with balance sheet constraints, helicopter drops are irrelevant
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