The pass-through to inflation of gas price shocks

Lucía López, Florens Odendahl, Susana Párraga and Edgar Silgado-Gómez
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Lucía López: BANCO DE ESPAÑA
Florens Odendahl: BANCO DE ESPAÑA
Susana Párraga: EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Edgar Silgado-Gómez: BANCO DE ESPAÑA

No 2512, Working Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: This paper uses a Bayesian Structural Vector Autoregressive (BSVAR) framework to estimate the pass-through of unexpected gas price supply shocks to HICP inflation in the euro area and its four largest economies. Compared with oil price shocks, gas price shocks have an approximately one-third smaller pass-through to headline inflation. Country-specific results indicate that gas price increases matter more for German, Spanish and Italian inflation than for French inflation, hinging on the reliance on energy commodities in consumption, production and different electricity price regulations. Consistent with gas becoming a prominent energy commodity in the euro area, including time-variation through a time-varying parameter BVAR demonstrates a substantially larger impact of gas price shocks on HICP inflation in recent years. The empirical estimates are then rationalised using a New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (NK-DSGE) model augmented with energy. In the model, the elasticity of substitution between gas and non-energy inputs plays a critical role in explaining the inflationary effects of gas shocks. A decomposition of the recent inflation dynamics into the model’s structural shocks reveals a larger contribution of gas shocks compared with oil shocks.

Keywords: natural gas and oil shocks; inflation; Bayesian VARs; New Keynesian DSGE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C32 E31 Q41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2025-02
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DOI: 10.53479/39118

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