Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161834 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6395
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We document that observed international input-output linkages contribute substantially to synchronizing producer price inflation (PPI) across countries. Using a multi-country, industry-level dataset that combines information on PPI and exchange rates with international and domestic input-output linkages, we recover the underlying cost shocks that are propagated internationally via the global input-output network, thus generating the observed dynamics of PPI. We then compare the extent to which common global factors account for the variation in actual PPI and in the underlying cost shocks. Our main finding is that across a range of econometric tests, input-output linkages account for half of the global component of PPI inflation. We report three additional findings: (i) the results are similar when allowing for imperfect cost pass-through and demand complementarities; (ii) PPI synchronization across countries is driven primarily by common sectoral shocks and input-output linkages amplify co-movement primarily by propagating sectoral shocks; and (iii) the observed pattern of international input use preserves fat-tailed idiosyncratic shocks and thus leads to a fat-tailed distribution of inflation rates, i.e., periods of disination and high inflation.
Subjects: 
international inflation synchronization
globalization
inflation
input linkages
monetary policy
global value chain
production structure
input-output linkages
supply chain
JEL: 
E31
E52
E58
F02
F14
F33
F41
F42
F62
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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