Shockflation in the EU: sectoral shocks, cost-push inflation and structural asymmetries in core and periphery countries
Year: 2024
Type: preprint
Abstract: We estimate how energy shocks affect the functional distribution of income. Using structural vector autoregressions identified with the oil supply news instrument proposed by Kanzig(2021), we find that an increase in oil prices leads to a substantial and long-lasting decline in the wage share. Real aggregate wage income is significantly impacted, with a considerable part of this decline stemming from distributive dynamics. We also investigate possible asymmetries in the response to oil supply shocks, finding that the wage share is more sensitive to negative shocks than to positive ones. This suggests that wage earners lose from oil price hikes more than they benefit from declines.
Authors: Ferreira, Vicente, Ferreira, Joao Pedro, Guarascio, Dario, Zezza, Francesco
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6973635696