Global Food Prices and Domestic Inflation : Some Cross-Country Evidence /

This paper provides a broad brush look at the impact of fluctuations in global food prices on domestic inflation in a large group of countries. For advanced economies, we find that these fluctuations have played a significant role over the period from 1960 to the present, but the impact has declined...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Furceri, Davide
Other Authors: Loungani, Prakash, Simon, John, Wachter, Susan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/133
Online Access:Full text available on IMF