The sudden demand spike for online grocery purchases during the Covid-19 pandemic and supply bottlenecks caused by disrupted global value chains put immense pressure on prices. We analyze prices of largest German grocers to test how these challenges affected first wave pandemic. Using a large dataset price quotes, we shed light magnitude changes across retailer types, product categories, stages...

The hoped-for silver lining of euro-area austerity programs was to raise external competitiveness and improve current accounts. Using product- industry-level data for 12 countries over the period 1999–2018, we show that reductions in government spending reduce prices wages but only products with low import content industries export shares. This leads asymmetric expenditure switching, net export...

This study aims to analyze inflation's volatility as a combined phenomenon of energy, monetary and fiscal policies in Indonesia. By using secondary data the form quarter-time series from 2011 2019. uses descriptive quantitative analysis techniques with help Eviews 10. The findings are that all variables have significant effect on inflation Indonesia except tax revenue. Thus, it is evident count...

This paper examines the relation between granting central banks more independence represented in both its manifested legal charter as well actual practices adopted and inflation Egypt during period from 1998-2019. To do so, this first looks at evolution of different bank (CBI) measures adopts most comprehensive relevant one. Consequently, it runs a regression model adopting an autoregressive di...

The link between US labor cost and price inflation has weakened notably over the past three decades. In this paper we document decline analyse potential contributing factors. We consider four important trends that have shaped economy of late: (i) improved anchoring expectations; (ii) changing constellation shocks hitting economy; (iii) increased trade integration (iv) rising firm market power. ...