opposite is the case with markups. If they increase in reaction to higher prices, they contribute to further price increases …

import prices only to a small extent, it may have a substantial impact on inflation, as it exerts a sizeable impact on the …

factor prices has a positive effect on markups. We show theoretically that firms with higher shares of inputs with volatile … prices set higher markups. We use the Bartik shift-share approach to empirically test whether firms which use more oil … relative to other inputs set higher markups when oil prices are more volatile. Our estimates imply that a one standard …

networks. Starting with country-level data, we find that both producer price and consumer price inflation rates move more …

If you’re just tuning in, I’ve spent the last few months debunking some common misconceptions about inflation: Is … inflation a uniform increase in prices? No. Inflation is wildly differential. Is inflation driven by an ‘over-heated’ economy …? No. Inflation tends to come with economic stagnation. Do higher interest rates reduce inflation? No. Higher interest …

Inflation affects the purchasing power of households. This paper documents large, idiosyncratic inflation differences … between households in their everyday shopping. Low-income households have experienced higher inflation in the last ten years … inflation differences within countries. Between countries, multinational retail chains not only differentiate products by …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …

the small.” Furthermore, it turns out that inflation offers only a partial explanation for the finding. Indeed …, substantial proportion of the asymmetry remains unexplained, even after accounting for the inflation. For example, the asymmetry … holds also after excluding periods of inflation from the data, and even for products whose price had not increased. The …