significant relationship between real wages and labor productivity, as well as evidence of wage pass-through to inflation. Terms …

This paper analyzes the monetary policy response to rising inflation in emerging and developing countries associated … with the food and oil price shocks in 2007 and the first half of 2008. It reviews inflation developments in a sample of … of inflation; provides a synthesis of policy responses taken against the background of the conflicting objectives and …

The pass-through effects of oil price shocks on wage and consumer price inflation vary with the states or structural … advanced economies. The pass-through to wages is found to have been higher when the prevailing level of inflation was higher or … policy. The effects of oil price shocks on core inflation and inflation expectations are consistent with their effects on …

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 …