useful information about variables such as commodity prices which matter for aggregate demand and thus inflation. Given this …

and food price shocks on a given set of countries. Secondly, we assess the importance of inflation linkages among … exist among regions. In addition, a considerable part of the observed headline inflation rises is attributable to foreign …

States and the euro area. For many of the basic items in the basket of goods used to estimate inflation, the effects of oil … through to core inflation (or rather to inflation excluding food and energy products) by means of macroeconomic factors; while …

Global developments play an important role in domestic inflation rates. Previous literature has found that a … substantial amount of the variation in a large set of national inflation rates can be explained by a single global factor. However …, inflation volatility has been typically neglected, while it is clearly relevant both from a policy point of view and for …

We develop a model to empirically study the influence of global factors in driving trend inflation and the inflation … gap. We apply our model to five established inflation targeters and a group of heterogeneous Asian economies. Our results … suggest that while global factors can have a sizeable influence on the inflation gap, they play only a marginal role in …

components in international inflation rates. This paper characterizes such links in international inflation rates with a dynamic … latent factor model that decomposes 64 national inflation rates into world, regional, and idiosyncratic components. The world … and regional components account for 35% and 16%, respectively, of annual inflation variability on average across countries …

Since 2000 U.S. inflation has remained both below target and silent to domestic slack and monetary interventions. A … inflation. The trend analysis shows that, starting from the '90s, despite very well-anchored expectations, slow-moving imported … "cost-push" factors induced deflationary pressure keeping trend inflation below target. The cycle block provides evidence in …

(notably residential property) and inflation; and it looks at the role of public debt for consumer price developments. On the … basis of a VAR analysis, the study finds that i) global money demand shocks affect global inflation and also global … commodity prices, which in turn impact on inflation; global asset/property price dynamics appear to respond to financing cost …

There is no consensus over the importance of "global forces" on inflation. This study explores the role of structural … breaks in the inflation process, and their timing, whether it is common across countries, and the extent to which "global … forces" are relevant. Three conclusions stand out. Global inflation impacts inflation in both AE and EME, but the impact is …