, investment, hours, interest rates and inflation using a panel VAR estimated from data for 20 OECD economies, mainly for the …

the great moderation, but asset price cycles were becoming more volatile. In part this was linked to developments in the …

international shock that drives national inflation uncertainty and which is closely related to oil and commodity price uncertainty …We investigate the international linkages of inflation uncertainty in the G7. In a first step, we document that … inflation uncertainty in the G7 is intertwined. Moreover, the degree of synchronization has increased during the recent two …

This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after …

is stronger for countries with higher average inflation or debt …

techniques are applied to monthly inflation series of 21 OECD countries and it is found that average forecasting methods in …

legislation, high union density, centralised wage setting and high inflation …

This paper evaluates whether macroeconomic uncertainty changes the impact of oil shocks on the oil price. Using a … production volatility, significantly increases the responsiveness of oil prices to oil shocks. This implies a lower price …, varying uncertainty about the macroeconomy can explain time variation in the oil price elasticity and hence in oil price …

type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank … the price level. Furthermore, there is evidence for a strong search-for-yield effect on the side of investors in the …