Relative prices and pure inflation since the mid-1990s
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Published:2021-10-15
Issue:066
Volume:2021
Page:1-18
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ISSN:1936-2854
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Container-title:Finance and Economics Discussion Series
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language:
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Short-container-title:FEDS
Author:
Ahn Hie Joo, ,Luciani Matteo,
Abstract
This paper decomposes consumer price inflation into pure inflation, relative price inflation, and idiosyncratic inflation by estimating a dynamic factor model á la Reis and Watson (2010) on a data set of 146 monthly disaggregated prices from 1995 to 2019. We find that pure inflation is the trend around which PCE price inflation fluctuates, while relative price inflation and idiosyncratic inflation drive the fluctuation of PCE price inflation around the trend. Unlike Reis and Watson, we find that labor market slack is the main driver of pure inflation and that energy prices account for variation in relative price inflation.
Publisher
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Cited by
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