How Could Oil Price and Policy Rate Hikes Affect the Near-Term Inflation Outlook?

In this post, we combine the demand and supply oil price decomposition from the New York Fed’s Oil Price Dynamics Report with yield curve data to quantify the likely path of inflation in the United States and the euro area over the next twelve months. Published on Liberty Street Economics, June 24 2022.

June 2022 · Jan J. J. Groen, Adam I. Noble

Global Supply Chain Pressure Index: May 2022 Update

In this post, we review GSCPI readings through April 2022 and briefly discuss the drivers of recent moves in the index. Published on Liberty Street Economics, May 18 2022.

May 2022 · Gianluca Benigno, Julian Di Giovanni, Jan J. J. Groen, Adam I. Noble

The GSCPI: A New Barometer of Global Supply Chain Pressures

We propose a novel indicator to capture pressures that arise at the global supply chain level, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI).

May 2022 · Gianluca Benigno, Julian Di Giovanni, Jan J. J. Groen, Adam I. Noble

Global Supply Chain Pressure Index: March 2022 Update

In this post, we review GSCPI readings through February 2022 and we use the index’s underlying data to discuss the drivers of recent moves in the GSCPI. Published on Liberty Street Economics, March 03 2022.

March 2022 · Gianluca Benigno, Julian Di Giovanni, Jan J. J. Groen, Adam I. Noble

The Global Supply Side of Inflationary Pressures

In this post, we provide an assessment of the drivers of U.S. inflation where we exploit the link among different measures of inflation at the country level and a number of global supply side variables to uncover which common cross-country forces have been driving observed inflation. Published on Liberty Street Economics, January 28 2022.

January 2022 · Ozge Akinci, Gianluca Benigno, Ruth Cesar Heymann, Julian Di Giovanni, Jan J. J. Groen, Lawrence Lin, Adam I. Noble

Oil Prices, Global Demand Expectations, and Near-Term Global Inflation

In this post, we utilize the demand and supply decomposition from the New York Fed’s Oil Price Dynamics Report to argue that most of the oil price increase over the past year or so has reflected improving global demand expectations and explore what changing global demand expectations might mean for near-term global inflation developments. Published on Liberty Street Economics, October 04 2021.

October 2021 · Jan J. J. Groen, Adam I. Noble

Forecasting Inflation with Fundamentals ... It's Hard!

This posts reviews the key challenges in inflation forecasting and discusses some recent developments that attempt to deal with these challenges. Published on Liberty Street Economics, November 05 2014.

November 2014 · Jan J. J. Groen