Pass-through of International Food Prices to Domestic Inflation During and After the Great Recession: Evidence from a Set of Latin American Economies

We looked at how international food price shocks have impacted local inflation processes in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru in the past decade. Using impulse-response analysis coming from cointegrated vars, we find that international food inflation shocks take from one to six quarters to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Esteban Tamayo, Munir Jalil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2011-06-01
Series:Desarrollo y Sociedad
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Online Access:http://economia.uniandes.edu.co/revistadys/67/04_Food_Price.pdf