Project

The interaction between food prices and the macroeconomy: implications for monetary policy

Code
3G020713
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2018
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Agricultural and natural resource economics, environmental and ecological economics
    • Economic growth and aggregate productivity
    • Macroeconomic policy, macroeconomic aspects of public finance and general outlook
    • Monetary policy, central banking and the supply of money and credit
    • Prices, business fluctuations and cycles
Keywords
inflation food prices time-variation
 
Project description

In this project, we analyse the interaction between food prices and the macroeconomy. In particular: the transmission mechanism to output and inflation, are the effects different across countries, and have the effects changed over time