We explore how, in the French manufacturing sector, producer prices vary with market power during a severe episode of energy price hikes (between January 2020 and February 2023). Our work provides some empirical evidence in favor of a role for firms' market power in explaining inflation, and in...

This paper examines the drivers of fluctuations in global inflation, defined as a common factor across monthly headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation in G7 countries, over the past half-century. It estimates a Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression model where a wide range of shocks,...

This working paper was written by Yin-Wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz and Jude Yuen (University of California, Santa Cruz).Standard economic models predict that the choice of an exchange rate regime has important implications for the interdependency of national monetary...

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on euro area inflation and how it compares to the experiences of other countries, such as the United States, over the two-year period 2020-21. Our model-based calibration exercises deliver four key results: (1) compositional effects, or the switch...

We study the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Euro Area inflation and how it compares to the experiences of other countries, such as the United States, over the two-year period 2020-21. Our model-based calibration exercises deliver four key results: 1) Compositional effects – the switch from...

The five nations of the East African Community (EAC)-Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda-are scheduled to form a currency union. A key requirement for the successful functioning of a common currency is convergence of inflation rates. If inflation rates do not converge, countries in the...