Staff Memo
Price spillovers in Norway: Less prevalent after the 1980s
- Author:
- Kristine Aunvåg Matsen
- Series:
- Staff Memo
- Number:
- 12/2023
Abstract
This Staff Memo considers some of the available evidence on relative price shocks as a driver of Norwegian inflation dynamics in high- versus low-inflation regimes. The results suggest that relative price shocks have largely been transient over the past two-three decades. However, this has been a period of low and stable inflation. Evidence from the 1980s suggest that relative price shocks had greater passthrough to other prices, and thus core inflation, in a high inflation regime.
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ISSN 1504-2596 (online)