We estimate the dynamic effects of changes in retail energy prices on inflation using a novel monthly database …, covering 110 countries over 2000:M1 to 2016:M6. We find that (i) inflation responds positively to retail energy price shocks … response of inflation to these shocks owing to differences in factors related to labor market flexibility, energy intensity …

reforms may contribute to Japan's short-run goal of reflating the economy. It finds that boosting inflation with structural …

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

on monopoly markup fall short since inflation remained low after 2009. This paper contributes strong evidence of Granger …

We study the impact of fluctuations in global oil prices on domestic inflation using an unbalanced panel of 72 advanced … and developing economies over the period from 1970 to 2015. We find that a 10 percent increase in global oil inflation … increases, on average, domestic inflation by about 0.4 percentage point on impact, with the effect vanishing after two years and …

This paper uses a pairwise approach to investigate the main factors that have been driving inflation differentials in … the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region for the past two decades. The results suggest that inflation differentials in …

currency by keeping inflation low and steady. This paper provides evidence that monetary policy tightening aimed at maintaining … low and stable inflation could at the same time reduce consumption inequality over a 12-18 month horizon, commonly … benefit mainly from lower inflation. By contrast, the real consumption of individuals at higher ends of the consumption …

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 …