The spread of inflation from energy to other components

Rationale Inflation has risen continuously since December 2020. The increase was initially confined to the energy component, but has subsequently spread to food and the other components. It is important to understand the extent to which the spread of inflation is the result of higher energy prices....

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Autores: González Mínguez, José, Hurtado, Samuel, Leiva-León, Danilo, Urtasun, Alberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Banco de España
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional del Banco de España
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.bde.es:123456789/25119
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.bde.es/handle/123456789/25119
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Structural analysis
Economic situation
Inflation
Energy
Vector autoregression
Métodos Econométricos y Estadísticos
Fluctuaciones y ciclos económicos
Modelos econométricos
C11
C32
E31
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Sumario:Rationale Inflation has risen continuously since December 2020. The increase was initially confined to the energy component, but has subsequently spread to food and the other components. It is important to understand the extent to which the spread of inflation is the result of higher energy prices. Takeaways •The influence of energy prices on underlying inflation has increased. •This is partly due to the larger size of recent shocks, but also to an intensification of the pass-through of the changes in energy prices to other consumer prices.