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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abdih, Yasser
Other Authors: Balakrishnan, Ravi, Shang, Baoping
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/124
Online Access:Full text available on IMF