This paper summarises the findings of the Eurosystem’s Expert Group on Inflation Expectations (EGIE), which was one of the 13 work streams conducting analysis that fed into the ECB’s monetary policy strategy review. The EGIE was tasked with (i) reviewing the nature and behaviour of inflation...

In 2011 the Government of El Salvador implemented a reform to the gas subsidy that increased the welfare of households in all but the top two deciles of the income distribution. However, the reform turned out to be rather unpopular, especially among winners. This paper relies on ad hoc household...

I propose a state-space approach to test for international risk sharing at different horizons. Running the tests on US data <italic>vis-à-vis</italic> the rest of the world, I find that market incompleteness is pervasive: the null is rejected at all horizons.

During a natural disaster, the negative supply shock due to the destruction of productive capacity is counteracted by a positive demand shock due to public grants for assistance and reconstruction positing an identification issue in empirical work. Focusing on the 2009 'Aquilano' earthquake in...

I analyze the perfect risk-sharing condition in the time–frequency domain using wavelets. Some countries engage more in risk-sharing at specific frequencies while others at all frequencies, but only for a short period of time. Increasing degree of risk-sharing over time is visible only for the...