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Firms’ balance sheets and sectoral inflation in the euro area during the financial crisis

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Despite the sharp contraction in economic activity following the financial crisis and the subsequent euro area debt crisis, inflation in the euro area (as in other advanced economies) did not fall as much as predicted by standard New Keynesian models. This paper shows empirically that Gilchrist et al. (2015a)’s finding that less liquid US firms increased their prices during the financial crisis is also valid for firms in euro area countries under distress, the so-called GIPS countries. This result corroborates the notion that financial frictions may influence inflation dynamics.

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  • Antoun de Almeida, Luiza, 2015. "Firms’ balance sheets and sectoral inflation in the euro area during the financial crisis," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 31-33.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:135:y:2015:i:c:p:31-33
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.07.027
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    1. Abbate, Angela & Eickmeier, Sandra & Prieto, Esteban, 2016. "Financial shocks and inflation dynamics," Discussion Papers 41/2016, Deutsche Bundesbank.
    2. Pierluigi Balduzzi & Emanuele Brancati & Marco Brianti & Fabio Schiantarelli, 2020. "Credit Constraints anf Firms' Decisions: Evidence from the COVID-19 Outbreak Italian Firms’ Expectations and Plans," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 1013, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 07 Oct 2022.
    3. Simon Gilchrist & Raphael Schoenle & Jae Sim & Egon Zakrajšek, 2017. "Inflation Dynamics during the Financial Crisis," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 107(3), pages 785-823, March.
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    Keywords

    Sectoral inflation; Inflation dynamics; Financial crisis; Euro area debt crisis; Financial frictions;
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    JEL classification:

    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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