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 …

The correlation between persistent changes in the markup in one sector of an economy and the inflation rate is …. We find that the correlation is in general positive under an exogenous money growth rule as well as under an inflation … targeting rule. That is, a decrease of the markup leads to a decrease in the CPI-inflation rate. However, if inflation is …