What caused the US pandemic-era inflation?

B Bernanke, O Blanchard - Peterson Institute for International …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Bernanke and Blanchard answer the question posed by the title by specifying and
estimating a simple dynamic model of prices, wages, and short-run and long-run inflation …

Global supply chains: The looming “great reallocation”

L Alfaro, D Chor - 2023 - nber.org
Global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of US-China trade
tensions, the Covid-19 pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We document shifts in the pattern …

[PDF][PDF] Oil prices, monetary policy and inflation surges

L Gagliardone, M Gertler - 2023 - aeaweb.org
We develop a simple quantitative New Keynesian model aimed at accounting for the recent
sudden and persistent rise in inflation, with emphasis on the role of oil shocks and …

What caused the US pandemic-era inflation?

OJ Blanchard, BS Bernanke - 2023 - nber.org
We answer the question posed by the title by specifying and estimating a simple dynamic
model of prices, wages, and short-run and long-run inflation expectations. The estimated …

The causal effects of global supply chain disruptions on macroeconomic outcomes: evidence and theory

X Bai, J Fernández-Villaverde, Y Li, F Zanetti - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the causal effects and policy implications of global supply chain disruptions. We
construct a new index of supply chain disruptions from the mandatory automatic …

Inflation strikes back: The role of import competition and the labor market

M Amiti, S Heise, F Karahan… - NBER Macroeconomics …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
" So we have now experienced an extraordinary series of shocks if you think about it. The
pandemic, the response, the reopening, inflation, followed by the war in Ukraine, followed by …

The unemployment–inflation trade-off revisited: The Phillips curve in COVID times

RK Crump, S Eusepi, M Giannoni, A Şahin - Journal of Monetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Using a New Keynesian Phillips curve, we document the rapid and persistent
increase in the natural rate of unemployment, ut∗, in the aftermath of the pandemic and …

How do supply shocks to inflation generalize? Evidence from the pandemic era in Europe

We document how supply-chain pressures, household inflation expectations, and firm
pricing power interacted to induce the pandemic-era surge in consumer price inflation in the …

[PDF][PDF] Wage price spirals

G Lorenzoni, I Werning - Forthcoming, Brookings Papers in …, 2023 - ipl.econ.duke.edu
We interpret recent inflation experience through the lens of a new Keynesian model with
price and wage rigidities and non-labor inputs in inelastic supply. The model provides a …

Pandemic-era inflation drivers and global spillovers

We estimate a multi-country multi-sector New Keynesian model to quantify the drivers of
domestic inflation during 2020–2023 in several countries, including the United States. The …