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Does uncertainty amplify the inflation pass-through of gasoline price shocks?

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  • Gründler, Daniel
  • Scharler, Johann

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We study how U.S. inflation uncertainty responds to gasoline price shocks and how strongly the endogenous response of uncertainty influences the inflationary effects of these shocks. Using a VAR with stochastic volatility, which allows for delayed endogenous responses of volatility to level shocks, we find that uncertainty associated with U.S. inflation rises in response to adverse gasoline price shocks. A counterfactual exercise shows that gasoline price shocks help explain inflation uncertainty, but the feedback from inflation uncertainty to inflation is quantitatively negligible.

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  • Gründler, Daniel & Scharler, Johann, 2025. "Does uncertainty amplify the inflation pass-through of gasoline price shocks?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eneeco:v:144:y:2025:i:c:s0140988325001720
    DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108348
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    • C11 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Bayesian Analysis: General
    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy

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