Semiconductor Shortages and Vehicle Production and Prices

Recent inflation readings in the United States have been high, but they have been driven in part by components with known supply issues and by components related to the reopening of the economy.

Cleveland Fed researchers Pawel Krolikowski and Kristoph Naggert studied the impact of one bottleneck - semiconductor shortages - on vehicle production and new car prices, which have accelerated since the middle of 2020.

“Our best guess is that these shortages and their effects on new car prices will subside within the next six to nine months,” Krolikowski and Naggert write in a Cleveland Fed Economic Commentary.

Read the Economic Commentary: Semiconductor Shortages and Vehicle Production and Prices

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