Besley, Timothy 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8923-6372
(2007)
Inflation and the service sector.
In: Breakfast Club on 18 January 2007, 2007-01-18, Cardiff, United Kingdom, GBR.
Abstract
In this speech,(1) Professor Tim Besley,(2) member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), discusses the United Kingdom’s long-term structural shift from manufacturing towards services; whether this shift is consistent with increasing prosperity and growth for the UK economy; and the implications for monetary policy. The first key theme of the speech is that what matters is not whether output is in the form of services or manufacturing — it is the move towards the production of higher value added activities that enables the UK economy to progress. Second, the speech notes that over the past ten years we have observed a tendency for consumer services price inflation to run ahead of consumer goods price inflation — therefore we might reasonably expect inflationary pressure at the current time to be coming more from the services sector, in part driven by limited spare capacity. However, changes in overall inflation depend on the balance of demand and supply factors in the economy as a whole, and hence Tim concludes that the structural shift from the production of goods to that of services does not bring about an inflationary bias.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Other) |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/quarte... |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 The Author |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2011 11:44 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 04:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33783 |
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