Beirne, John, Dafermos, Yannis, Kriwoluzky, Alexander, Renzhi, Nuobu, Volz, Ulrich and Wittich, Jana (2024) Weather-related disasters and inflation in the euro area. Journal of Banking and Finance, 169. ISSN 0378-4266
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This article investigates the impact of weather-related disasters on inflation in the euro area over the period 1996–2021. Using a panel structural vector autoregression approach, we explore whether weather-related disasters have a significant and persistent effect on inflation, as well as the role that demand-side and supply-side channels play as drivers of inflation. We also analyse the heterogeneous effects of inflation on different product categories. Our results suggest that weather-related disasters have a positive, non-persistent effect on inflation. This reflects the prevalence of negative supply shock channels and positive demand shock channels over negative demand shock channels. We also find that weather-related disasters have more pronounced effects on the inflation of product categories that represent a higher proportion of the spending of low-income households, implying that disasters reinforce inflation inequality. Overall, our results suggest that, as the climate crisis deepens, it might become increasingly challenging for the European Central Bank to control inflation and its inequality effects.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2024 Published by Elsevier B.V. |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2024 13:45 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2024 16:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/125495 |
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