How inflationary are oil price shocks? A regional analysis
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Christensson, Jon(2009) . How Inflationary are Oil Price Shocks? A Regional Analysis . In Proceedings: 5th Annual Symposium: Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects. Wichita, KS: Wichita State University, p. 22-23
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The impact of oil shocks is analyzed by estimating an augmented Phillips curve on a national, regional and city level in the United States. A significant pass-through to inflation (including all items) is recorded for all regions, while core inflation remains largely muted. The West region has experienced a much lower pass-through than other regions and a few reasons for this are; greater oil efficiency, lower inflation variability and a lower exchange rate pass-through in the West. Also noted is an increasing trend for pass-through to inflation since the late 1980's, and the contrary was found for core inflation.
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Research completed at the Department of Economics. W. Frank Barton School of Business