What is Keeping U.S. Core Inflation Low : Insights from a Bottom-Up Approach /

Over the past two decades, U.S. core PCE goods and services inflation have evolved differently. Against the backdrop of global concerns of low inflation, we use this trend as motivation to develop a bottom-up model of U.S. inflation. We find that domestic forces play a larger role relative to foreig...

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主要作者: Abdih, Yasser
其他作者: Balakrishnan, Ravi, Shang, Baoping
格式: 杂志
语言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
丛编:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/124
在线阅读:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a Over the past two decades, U.S. core PCE goods and services inflation have evolved differently. Against the backdrop of global concerns of low inflation, we use this trend as motivation to develop a bottom-up model of U.S. inflation. We find that domestic forces play a larger role relative to foreign factors in influencing core services inflation, while foreign factors predominantly drive core goods price changes. When comparing forecasting performance, we find that both the aggregate Phillips curve and the bottom up approach give low root mean square errors. The latter, however, is more informative in tracing the effects of shocks and understanding the exact channels through which they affect aggregate inflation. Using scenario analysis-and given a relatively low sensitivity of core inflation to changes in slack, both at the aggregate Phillips curve and sub-components levels-we find that global pressures will likely keep core PCE inflation below 2 percent for the foreseeable future unless the dollar starts to depreciate markedly and the unemployment rate goes well below the natural rate. These results support the accommodative stance of monetary policy pursued thus far and, going forward, underscore the need for proceeding cautiously and very gradually in raising the federal funds rate. 
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