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Is inflation (still) a global phenomenon? We study the international co-movement of inflation based on a dynamic factor … explains approximately 58% of the variation in headline inflation across all countries and over 72% in OECD economies. The … explanatory power of global inflation is equally high in a shorter sample spanning the time since 2000. Core inflation is also …
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Greater international economic interconnectedness over recent decades has been changing inflation dynamics. This paper …, is an important channel through which global economic slack influences domestic inflation. In particular, we document the … inflation rates, both across countries and over time. Accounting for the role of GVCs, we also find that the conventional trade …
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This paper examines the reasons for the declining path of inflation since the 1970s. In particular, it focusses on the … inflation. The paper makes use of different data from individual countries and panel of countries. These data show that the … dispersion of inflation and the behavior of relative prices follow a pattern that is consistent with several globalization …
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We examine the global dimension of inflation i n 24 OECD countries between 1980 and 2007 in a traditional Phillips … global forces to affect inflation through (the common part of) domestic demand and supply conditions. Our most important … result is that the common component of changes in unit labor costs has a notable impact of inflation. We also find evidence …
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We examine the global dimension of inflation in 24 OECD countries between 1980 and 2007in a traditional Phillips curve … affect inflation through (the common part of) domestic demand and supplyconditions. Our most important result is that the … common component of changes in unit laborcosts notably affects inflation. We also find evidence that movements in import …
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In this paper we evaluate the relative influence of external versus domestic inflation drivers in the 12 new European … well supported in the new EU member states. We also find that the inflation process is dominated by domestic variables in … Keynesian Phillips Curve ; small open economies ; inflation dynamics ; new EU member countries ; GMM estimation …
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analyze China’s role in global inflation dynamics. We identify Chinese supply and demand shocks and examine their … to be more strongly affected than consumer prices by Chinese shocks. The overall share of international inflation … exposure help explaining crosscountry differences in price responses. -- Global inflation ; China ; international business …
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This paper aims at evaluating the impact of globalization, if any, on inflation and the inflation process. We estimate … commodity import price inflation on CPI inflation depends on the volume of commodity imports while the impact of non …-commodity import price inflation is independent of the volume of non-commodity imports. Second, focusing on the role of intra …
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We examine the global dimension of inflation in 24 OECD countries between 1980 and 2007 in a traditional Phillips curve … changes in unit labor costs have a notable impact on inflation. Import price inflation plays a smaller role, and it is unclear … how global components of output gaps affect inflation. We conclude that central banks should monitor worldwide conditions …
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the role of domestic factors in the inflation process in industrial economies. Toward that end, we estimate standard … Phillips curve inflation equations for 11 industrial countries and use these estimates to test several predictions of the … globalization and inflation hypothesis. Our results provide little support for that hypothesis. First, the estimated effect of …
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