Slovak Republic: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

No 2022/218, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Selected Issues paper on Slovak Republic focuses on supply bottlenecks in 2021. With a shift in global consumer spending toward goods, shortages of inputs and labor and logistical bottlenecks, supply bottlenecks were a prominent feature of the 2021 economic landscape, slowing the pace of the recovery and pushing up inflation. Using an empirical approach to quantify the impact of supply and demand shocks, this selected issue paper finds that supply shocks had a particularly pronounced effect in Slovakia, exerting a sizable drag on industrial production, and contributing significantly to producer price inflation. We find that in 2021H2 in Slovakia, manufacturing output would have been 15 percent higher and 60 percent of the increase in manufacturing producer price inflation would not have occurred in the absence of supply bottlenecks. The greater vulnerability of the Slovak economy to supply bottlenecks is consistent with its sizable auto sector, specialization in downstream activities, and high degree of integration into global value chains. The findings suggest that Slovakia remains highly exposed to supply shocks if the disruptions experienced in 2021 were to persist in 2022 or be amplified by the war in Ukraine.

Keywords: Core CPI inflation in Slovakia; PPI inflation; demand and supply supply shock; B. emission trend; International Monetary Fund Washington, d.c; Carbon tax; Greenhouse gas emissions; Supply shocks; Inflation; Manufacturing; Global; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33
Date: 2022-07-08
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