Understanding US inflation during the COVID-19 era

L Ball, D Leigh, P Mishra - Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2022 - muse.jhu.edu
This paper analyzes the dramatic rise in US inflation since 2020, which we decompose into
a rise in core inflation as measured by the weighted median inflation rate and deviations of …

[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 …

Economic costs of friendshoring

B Javorcik, L Kitzmueller, H Schweiger… - The World …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Geo‐political tensions and disruptions to global value chains have led policymakers to re‐
evaluate their approach to globalisation. Many countries are considering friendshoring …

The economic case for global vaccinations: An epidemiological model with international production networks

We develop a multi-sector-country model with input-output linkages to study the effects of
sectoral demand and supply shocks within the global trade and production network. Using …

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 …

Global supply chain pressures, inflation, and implications for monetary policy

G Ascari, D Bonam, A Smadu - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
How should policymakers respond to the recent surge in inflation? This paper examines the
impact of global supply chain pressures on euro area inflation and the implications for …

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 …

Quantifying the inflationary impact of fiscal stimulus under supply constraints

J Di Giovanni, Ş Kalemli-Özcan, A Silva… - AEA Papers and …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
This paper builds on Baqaee and Farhi (2022) and di Giovanni et al.(2022) to quantify the
contribution of fiscal policy on US inflation over the December 2019 to June 2022 period …

The inflationary effects of sectoral reallocation

F Ferrante, S Graves, M Iacoviello - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented shift of consumption from services to
goods. We study this demand reallocation in a multi-sector model featuring sticky prices …

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 …