Tuesday 15 May 2018

A genie in a bottle: Inflation, globalisation, and competition

a column by Dan Andrews, Peter Gal and William Witheridge for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Low inflation at the same time as rising global competition has led to a debate on the importance of globalisation for domestic inflation. This column suggests that greater participation in global value chains has placed downward pressure on inflation. The current higher level of global value chain integration may also dampen inflation by accentuating the impact of global economic slack on domestic inflation. There is a risk that stalling globalisation since the crisis, coupled with stronger aggregate demand and declining market contestability, could lead to inflationary pressures in the medium term.

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