Nikiforos, Michalis; Grothe, Simon; Weber, Jan - 2024
The post-pandemic surge in inflation was accompanied by a surge in the corporate share of profits. As a result, several … economists and policy makers have given to it names such as "profit-led inflation" or "sellers' inflation." The present paper … discusses the extent to which profit-led inflation, as an explanation for the recent surge in inflation, is compatible with what …