Oil, Gas, Pandemics, and War: The Drivers of Inflation

Luisa Corrado, Stefano Grassi (), Aldo Paolillo () and Francesco Ravazzolo ()
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Stefano Grassi: DEF, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", http://www.ceistorvergata.it
Aldo Paolillo: DEF, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", http://www.ceistorvergata.it
Francesco Ravazzolo: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

No 582, CEIS Research Paper from Tor Vergata University, CEIS

Abstract: We study how the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reshaped energy prices and macroeconomic conditions in the Euro area. We develop and estimate a two-sector model in which oil, coal, and gas are combined to produce refined energy used by households and firms. The model allows for complementarities between energy and non-energy inputs, so shocks to individual energy markets propagate broadly through production, consumption, and inflation. Focusing on shocks specific to oil, coal, and gas from the onset of the pandemic to 2022:Q3, we find that they raised energy inflation by about 36 percentage points and headline inflation by 1.8 percentage points. Complementarities, wage indexation, and monetary policy amplify these effects, while subsidies offset them only partially

Keywords: Fossil energy; supply shocks; inflation; complementarities; monetary policy; fiscal policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E32 E52 E62 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 75 pages
Date: 2024-08-30, Revised 2026-04-28
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