Inflationary pressures, wages and profits

Hassan Faryaar and Danny Leung

Economic and Social Reports from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies and Modelling Branch

Abstract: At 6.8% on an annual average basis, Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation in 2022 reached a 40-year high. Survey data from Statistics Canada suggest that rising prices have affected many Canadians’ ability to meet day-to-day expenses and have led to a need to adjust spending habits to cope with inflation. To better understand the nature of high inflation and how it may evolve in the future, studies have looked at potential driving sources. For example, in Canada, Wang (2023) estimated the impact of import prices on inflation. Chen and Tombe (2023) examined the relative importance of supply and demand shocks in a perfectly competitive market. Faryaar et al. (2023) studied the impacts of rising markups on inflation in an imperfectly competitive market. In the United States, Stiglitz and Regmi (2022) and Jarsulic (2022) argued that the negative supply shock was the main driver of inflation but sectoral demand shifts and market power also fuelled the problem. Thus, there are different ideas in the literature on the main driver of inflation.

Keywords: wages; inflationary pressures; profits; CPI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 M21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-28
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DOI: 10.25318/36280001202300600005-eng

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