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Working Paper

Do Energy-Price Shocks Affect Core-Price Measures?

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This paper investigates the relationship between energy-price shocks and three core measures of inflation in a vector autoregression model that incorporates measures of monetary policy and inflation expectations. The sample set includes data at monthly frequencies from 1980 through 2000. We find that that positive energy-price shocks have significant, though small, effects on all core price measures after a lag of 12 to 18 months, but that negative shocks have no discernable impact. The results suggest that relative energy-price changes do not distort the inflation signals that standard core-price measures provide.
11.01.2002ISSN 2573-7953 WP 02-15DOI 10.26509/frbc-wp-200215
Keywords energy prices, vector autoregression, inflation, monetary policy
JEL Classification Codes Q43, E52

Working Papers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment on research in progress. They may not have been subject to the formal editorial review accorded official Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the Federal Reserve System.

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Humpage, Owen F., and Eduard Pelz. 2002. “Do Energy-Price Shocks Affect Core-Price Measures?” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Working Paper No. 02-15. https://doi.org/10.26509/frbc-wp-200215