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, subsequently, we didn't see the inflation they predicted. We show that these puzzles disappear in a Vector Autoregressive model … much of the inflation dynamics in the 2012-2014 euro area missing inflation episode. Consequently, economists and models … that excessively focused on the global nature of inflation were liable to miss the contribution of deflationary domestic …
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This paper decomposes the time-varying effect of exogenous exchange rate shocks on euro area countries in ation into country-specific (idiosyncratic) and region-wide (common) components. To do so, we propose a exible empirical framework based on dynamic factor models subject to drifting...
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food price shocks on a given set of countries. Secondly, we assess the importance of inflation linkages among countries, by …. In addition, a considerable part of the observed headline inflation rises is attributable to foreign sources for the vast … majority of the regions. -- Oil shock ; commodity prices ; inflation ; second-round effects ; Global VAR …
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This paper shows that inflation in industrialized countries is largely a global phenomenon. First, inflations of (22 … associated to Global Inflation is not only due to the trend components of inflation (up from 1960 to 1980 and down thereafter …) but also to fluctuations at business cycle frequencies. Second, Global Inflation is, consistently with standard models of …
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This paper tests whether the proposition that globalisation has led to greater sensitivity of domestic inflation to the … for domestic consumer price inflation in the euro area. Based on these findings, the prescription that central banks …
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In this paper we analyse in a mark-up framework the pass-through of commodity price and exchange rate shocks to the main components of producer and consumer prices. Thereby we link movements in prices at the different production stages as firms set their prices as a mark-up over production...
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We study the convergence properties of inflation rates among the countries of the European Monetary Union over the … and multivariate unit root tests on inflation differentials, arguing that the power of the tests is considerably increased … hypothesis over the period 1980-1997. We then investigate whether the second sub-sample is characterized by stable in inflation …
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The growth in TARGET balances after 2009 has given rise to intense academic and public debate. Our paper offers a systematic exposition of the necessary conditions for TARGET balances to emerge and provides a clear link to monetary policy. We show that large TARGET balances can only arise with...
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