We study how precipitation has affected food consumer price inflation (CPI), using dynamic panel estimation of food CPI …. We allow for nonlinear effects of precipitation on food CPI inflation, and also control for possible nonlinear effects of … temperature. We find that precipitation has significant nonlinear effects on food CPI inflation. The coefficient of food CPI …

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 …

This paper studies the effects of country-specific energy prices on food consumer price inflation (CPI) within a cross … 1994 to the end of 2021. We find that energy CPI inflation has a significantly positive effect on food CPI inflation, after … inflation expectations, global food commodity prices and core CPI inflation. We also find that the effect of energy CPI …

Examining the economies of the European Union from 2000 to 2023, we have found no strong evidence that the inflation … the euro area, aimed at rapidly bringing inflation under control, could actually be detrimental to economic growth. Since … the negative effects of monetary tightening on growth are clear, while the benefits of rapidly reducing inflation on …

particular the aim of price stability, understood as low and stable inflation. Design/Research methods: The article was prepared … inflation reduces uncertainty about future price developments. This facilitates decision-making for companies concerning …

In the first-half of the global financial turmoil, rising inflation was a major concern for emerging East Asian central … addressing higher inflation or supporting moderate growth. Higher food and fuel prices were the major drivers of headline … inflation. Their causes, however, were a confluence of factors--whether cyclical or structural, domestic or global, supply or …