between the countries of the Euro area. We find a strong negative correlation between wealth inequality and homeownership … by homeownership status shows that the negative relationship is mostly driven by large between-group inequality across … crosscountry inequality differences. We confirm the major role for homeownership rates in accounting for the wealth inequality …

This paper analyses the determinants of short-term inflation expectations based on surveys of professionals, using … dynamic cross-country panel estimation for a large number of 34 OECD economies. We find that food consumer price inflation and … depreciations of the domestic exchange rate have significant positive effects on professionals' survey-based inflation expectations …

This paper examines the causal effects of shifts in international food commodity prices on euro area inflation dynamics …%-30% of inflation volatility. In addition, large autonomous swings in international food prices contributed significantly to … the twin puzzle of missing disinflation and missing inflation in the era after the Great Recession. Specifically, without …

costs across product groups. We show that, after the referendum, inflation increased by more for product groups with higher …

We examine the relationship between inflation and fiscal sustainability with a two-step approach. In the first step, we … various measures of inflation such as headline inflation, core inflation, energy inflation, and food inflation affect the … estimate of fiscal sustainability found previously. Our findings indicate that higher inflation rates contribute positively to …

area inflation ; heterogeneity ; panel VAR model …