The inflation surge in recent years is having profound social, economic, and political consequences. With food price … changes being an integral part of inflation, low income segments of the population are strongly impacted. What makes this … phenomenon shows that inflation is increasingly synchronised across borders. This study examines price developments across …

The COVID-19 pandemic eventually gave rise to large increases in profits, profit shares and inflation rates. A major … controversy has developed among economists and in the media about whether this was largely caused by profit inflation, that is, by … inflation, dealing with its definitions and the complexities of its measures. In particular, it shows that increases in economic …

This paper identifies and quantifies the drivers of inflation dynamics in the three Baltic economies and assesses the … effectiveness of fiscal policy in fighting inflation. It also analyzes the macroeconomic impact of inflation on competitiveness by … focusing on the relationship between wages and productivity in the tradeable sector. The results reveal that inflation in the …

Using a large panel of firm-level data, this paper provides an analysis of how inflation shocks in the Baltics between … sectors. First, we find that inflation and inflation volatility had mixed effects on TFP growth, profitability and net fixed … find that inflation shocks had differential effects on large versus small firms. Third, we explore sectoral heterogeneity …