This paper studies the dynamics of U.S. sectoral producer prices in a large Bayesian Vector Auto Regression (BVAR) model where the Input-Output (IO) matrix is used to structure their long-run relationships. The model provides evidence of a sectoral spillover channel in driving headline inflation without imposing such a mechanism in the model’s structure.
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This paper studies the dynamics of U.S. sectoral producer prices in a large Bayesian Vector Auto Regression (BVAR) model where the Input-Output (IO) matrix is used to structure their long-run relationships. The model provides evidence of a sectoral spillover channel in driving headline inflation without imposing such a mechanism in the model’s structure.
The onset of the war in the Middle East triggered a sharp deterioration in consumer confidence across the euro area, comparable in magnitude to that observed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This box examines the extent to which the decline in confidence is associated with actual consumption behaviour using microdata from the ECB Consumer Expectations Survey. The analysis reveals that nominal consumption growth softened materially in April 2026, driven mainly by reduced discretionary spending, particularly among higher-income households.
Manuel Gonzalez-Astudillo, Jean-Philippe Laforte, Antoine LepetitPotential output and the natural rate of unemployment are commonly estimated through trend-cycle decompositions, where they are identified as underlying trends reflecting slow-moving supply factors.
Robert Minton and Hugo MonneryUsing survey data from U.S. firms, we study the primitive beliefs for pricesetting: firms’ forecasts of their own marginal costs. These forecasts are disconnected from CPI expectations, (over)react to current and past costs systematically, and underreact to aggregate shocks until costs move. We show that under empirically realistic cost beliefs the New Keynesian Phillips curve is steeper and less forward-looking. Supply shocks are more inflationary because they hit costs quickly.
John Geanakoplos and David E. RappoportThe Credit Surface along the leverage dimension gives the bond spread as a function of the loan-to-value ratio. Empirically, we show that uncertainty shocks typically increase spreads and steepen the credit surface, profoundly affecting the supply of credit. Theoretically, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the convexity of the credit surface, and for changes in the anticipated distribution of collateral prices that lead to steepening of the credit surface.
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We develop a new approach to estimating earnings, job, and employment dynamics using subjective expectations data from the NY Fed Survey of Consumer Expectations. These data provide beliefs about future earnings offers and acceptance probabilities, offering direct information on counterfactual outcomes and enabling identification under weaker assumptions. Our framework avoids biases from selection and unobserved heterogeneity that affect models using realized outcomes.
