activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across …

After trailing Euro Area inflation closely in the recent past, inflation in the Western Balkans has accelerated faster … VAR, adapting them to the data availability and country specificities of the Western Balkans, to analyze the inflation … dynamics in the region. It finds that international food prices affect not only headline but also core inflation as well as …

The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper … constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass …, and more closely related to headline inflation over the next year. The weighted median also has a drawback: in most …

There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature … assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into … food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether food inflation affects income inequality differently from nonfood …

This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of inflation in Thailand. For that aim, the paper uses rich micro …-survey data on 46,000 Thai households to study the effect of the recent elevated inflation on poverty, its distributional effects … multidimensional impact of inflation, the paper also studies how inflation differentially affects households through the consumption …