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Clearwater Introduces IRM|Performance to Power Cybersecurity Maturity and Resiliency

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ORLANDO, Fla., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Clearwater, the largest pure-play provider of cybersecurity and compliance solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today at the HIMSS Global Conference & Exposition a new addition to its proprietary SaaS platform, IRM|Pro. The solution, IRM|Performance, is a force-multiplying component of Clearwater's tech-enabled NIST CSF Maturity Assessment and equips healthcare executives with ongoing performance indicators, dashboards, and reporting related to their organization's cybersecurity program performance. IRM|Performacne enables healthcare organizations to measure their conformance relative to the NIST CSF – a healthcare industry standard – and the HHS Voluntary Cybersecurity Performance Goals, published earlier this year.

Key Points: 
  • The solution, IRM|Performance, is a force-multiplying component of Clearwater's tech-enabled NIST CSF Maturity Assessment and equips healthcare executives with ongoing performance indicators, dashboards, and reporting related to their organization's cybersecurity program performance.
  • Clearwater's IRM|Performance software and NIST CSF Maturity Assessment give healthcare leaders visibility into their current cybersecurity program performance and a means to communicate where they're headed as an organization and what they need to get there.
  • Designed to empower healthcare organizations to gauge the current state and demonstrate program maturation over time, IRM|Performance and the NIST CSF Maturity Assessment, delivered by Clearwater's dedicated healthcare cybersecurity experts, provide powerful insights into cybersecurity programs and show healthcare leaders a clear path to better cyber resiliency.
  • IRM|Performance is part of Clearwater's SaaS platform, IRM|Pro, built to help healthcare organizations solve their greatest cybersecurity and compliance challenges.

Christine Lagarde: Building confidence in the path ahead

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

This box investigates how households have responded to the 2021-23 inflationary episode using evidence from the ECB’s Consumer Expectations Survey.

Key Points: 
  • This box investigates how households have responded to the 2021-23 inflationary episode using evidence from the ECB’s Consumer Expectations Survey.
  • The findings suggest that households have primarily adjusted their consumption spending to cope with higher inflation.

Debate on: Is the inflation surge over and what are the lessons for monetary policy?

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Shocks to the shortages variable are constructed as deviations in the values from the sample mean.

Key Points: 
    • Shocks to the shortages variable are constructed as deviations in the values from the sample mean.
    • Shocks to the vacancy-to-unemployment ratio (labour market variable) are constructed
      as the actual value minus the value in the fourth quarter of 2019.
    • ?Indirect impact of energy prices on non-energy inflation? is the sum of the indirect effects of oil,
      gas and electricity prices.
    • 3

      Historical
      Rubric comparison of inflation episodes in the euro area ? headline and core
      Headline

      Core

      (percentage points)

      (percentage points)
      Current euro area episode
      Past global episodes

      Current euro area episode
      Past global episodes
      2

      2

      0

      0

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      -2

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      -8

      -4

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      -12

      -24

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      -12

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      0

      6

      12

      18

      -6

      24

      Months around inflation peak

      -24

      -18

      -12
      -6
      0
      6
      12
      Months around inflation peak

      18

      Sources: BIS, Eurostat and ECB calculations.

    • The dark blue line represents the latest developments in headline and core inflation for the euro area, relative to the October
      2022 peak.
    • Non-energy industrial goods inflation refers to a panel of all euro area countries, while services inflation refers to
      a panel of 30 AEs and 28 EMEs.
    • Month = 0 is when the headline inflation value is at the highest during that particular episode.
    • The dark blue line represents the latest developments
      in non-energy industrial goods and services inflation for the euro area, relative to the October 2022 peak.
    • unprocessed
      food and energy

      HICPX

      8
      3.0

      3.0

      2.5

      2.5

      2.0

      2.0
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      1.0
      Feb-24

      Jul-24

      1.0
      Dec-24 Feb-24

      Jul-24

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      7

      7

      6

      6

      5

      5

      4

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      3

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      Adjusted
      measures

      Difference
      4

      3

      2

      1

      0
      0
      0
      Feb-24 Jan-23 Jul-23 Jan-24
      Jan-23 Jul-23 Jan-24
      Feb-24 Jan-23 Jul-23 Jan-24
      Feb-24

      Dec-24

      Sources: Eurostat, March 2024 ECB staff short-term inflation outlook, Consensus
      Economics, Bloomberg and ECB calculations.

    • The ?adjusted?
      measures abstract from energy and supply-bottleneck shocks using a large SVAR, see
      Ba?bura, Bobeica and Mart?nez-Hern?ndez (2023), ?What drives core inflation?
    • Notes: 5-days moving average risk-neutral
      probabilities of inflation implied by five-year and tenyear zero-coupon inflation options.
    • 16

      8

      12
      Quarters

      16

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      Policy
      Rubriccounterfactuals
      Interest rate under alternative
      counterfactuals

      Counterfactual impacts on
      Inflation

      (percentages per annum)

      (annual percentage change)

      Baseline
      Earlier and longer
      Earlier, longer and higher

      8

      Baseline

      7
      6
      5
      4
      3
      2
      1
      0
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      2021Q4

      2022Q4

      2023Q4

      2024Q4

      Earlier, longer and higher

      10

      2

      8

      0

      6

      -2

      4

      -4

      2

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      0

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      2025Q4

      Earlier and longer

      Output gap

      (p.p.

    • The RHS chart displays the impact on inflation (first panel) and output gap (second panel) for each of the hypothetical alternative paths of the interest
      rate.
    • As a caveat, financial feedback loops as well as feedback loops between inflation expectations and inflation are not activated.

Piero Cipollone: The confidence to act: monetary policy and the role of wages during the disinflation process

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

This box investigates how households have responded to the 2021-23 inflationary episode using evidence from the ECB’s Consumer Expectations Survey.

Key Points: 
  • This box investigates how households have responded to the 2021-23 inflationary episode using evidence from the ECB’s Consumer Expectations Survey.
  • The findings suggest that households have primarily adjusted their consumption spending to cope with higher inflation.

Consumer participation in the credit market during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

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We find that credit demand is highest when

Key Points: 
    • We find that credit demand is highest when
      the first lockdown ends and it drops when supportive monetary compensation schemes are implemented.
    • Credit is more likely to be
      accepted under favourable borrowing conditions and after the approval of national recovery plans.
    • We also find
      that demographic, economic factors, perceptions and expectations are associated with the demand for credit and
      the credit grant.
    • First, it adds to a rapidly growing literature on household
      borrowing behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic; see, for example, Ho et al.
    • We provide evidence that credit applications and credit acceptances display a different pattern over
      time.
    • Credit is more likely to be accepted under favourable borrowing conditions and after the
      approval of national recovery plans.
    • In almost all countries
      households are significantly less likely to apply and to get their credit approved than in Germany.
    • In line with literature, we show that
      demographic and economic factors affect the probability for credit applications and credit approval.
    • In addition,
      the paper shows that consumer perceptions and expectations matter when they decide to apply for credit.
    • Introduction

      The participation of households in the credit market receives wide attention in the consumer finance literature
      because consumer credit enters the monetary policy transmission mechanism through the so-called ?credit
      channel?: changes in credit demand and supply have an effect on consumers' spending and investment, which in
      turn affect economic growth.

    • We use microdata from the ECB?s Consumer Expectations Survey (hereinafter CES), a survey that
      measures consumer expectations and behaviour in the euro area.
    • Its panel dimension allows for an assessment of
      how consumer behaviour changes over time and how consumers respond to critical economic shocks.
    • This way we can gauge how credit applications and credit acceptances change under different, almost
      opposite, borrowing conditions.
    • We also distinguish between the demand for long-term secured loans (mortgages) and for short-term
      uncollateralized loans (consumer loans).
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      We use probit models to estimate the probability of the consumer to apply for credit and the credit being granted.

    • The rate peaks in 2020Q3 which reflects the rebound in the demand for loans when the first lockdown ended.
    • In almost all countries households are significantly less likely
      to apply and to get their credit approved than in Germany.
    • However,
      when it comes to credit acceptance, we observe that the two groups of households are more similar.
    • Finally, we find some heterogeneity with respect to the type of credit, particularly between secured and unsecured
      debt.
    • The demand for
      consumer credit is insignificant for liquid households and decreases significantly for constrained households in
      the last two quarters of our timespan.
    • The first consists of a recently growing literature which
      explores consumer behaviour in the credit market during the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly in the United States.
    • Sandler and Ricks (2020) show that consumers did not use credit card debt for financial liquidity in the early stage
      of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • (2020) report that credit card applications and new mortgage loans
      declined during the first months of the pandemic in regions with more unemployment insurance claims.
    • Lu and
      Van der Klaauw (2021) show that there was a sharp drop in consumer credit demand, especially for credit cards.
    • (2022) document that there was a substantial decrease in the usage of credit cards and home equity lines
      of credit by Canadian consumers.
    • Our paper is also consonant with studies on the association between financial and demographic factors and
      consumers? participation in the credit market as well as on the demand for specific types of credit.
    • January 2020 ? October 2020 - The two main events are the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the
      consequential lockdowns in the euro area.
    • 4 If the
      respondent has applied for more than one type of credit, she is asked to refer to the most recent credit application.
    • Between 2021Q3 and 2022Q3 the acceptance
      rate stays above the average values, mirroring the easing of credit standards for consumer credit and other lending
      to households during this period.
    • Second, we can investigate the presence of nonlinearities in how liquidity and the credit type interact in explaining credit applications.
    • (2023) ? who show that in the United States the local pandemic severity had a strong
      negative effect on credit card spending early in the pandemic, which diminished over time.
    • First, we select mortgages and consumer credit as the two mostly reported categories for secured and

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      The full estimation results are reported in Table 3.

    • The right-hand side panel of Figure 6 shows that the demand for consumer credit is insignificant for both liquid
      and illiquid households.
    • It also shows that
      subjective perceptions of credit access, financial concerns and expectations on interest rates matter for the demand
      for credit.
    • In Bertola, G., Disney
      R., and Grant, C. (eds) The Economics of Consumer Credit, Cambridge MA, MIT Press.
    • Horvath, A., Kay, B. and Wix, C. (2023) The COVID-19 shock and consumer credit: Evidence from credit card
      data.
    • Magri, S. (2007) Italian households? debt: The participation to the debt market and the size of the loan.

The unequal impact of the 2021-22 inflation surge on euro area households

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The 2021-22 surprise inflation surge had a major impact on households in the euro area.

Key Points: 
  • The 2021-22 surprise inflation surge had a major impact on households in the euro area.
  • Indeed, not everyone was a net loser: while about 70% of households suffered a loss, the rest enjoyed moderate gains.

Measuring market-based core inflation expectations

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Abstract

Key Points: 
    • Abstract
      We build a novel term structure model for pricing synthetic euro area core inflation-linked
      swaps, a hypothetical swap contract indexed to core inflation.
    • The model provides estimates of market-based expectations for core inflation, as
      well as core inflation risk premia, at daily frequency, whereas core inflation expectations from
      surveys or macroeconomic projections are typically only available monthly or quarterly.
    • We
      find that core inflation-linked swap rates are generally less volatile than headline inflationlinked swap rates and that market participants expected core inflation to be substantially
      more persistent than headline inflation following the 2022 energy price spike.
    • In this paper, we aim to infer market-based core inflation expectations, which are otherwise
      not directly observable because no financial asset directly tied to core inflation exists.
    • We deem this second assumption reasonable because HICP inflation itself is a linear combination
      of core as well as energy and food inflation.
    • The level of 2 percent and relatively low volatility of
      long-term inflation expectations suggests that inflation expectations are firmly anchored at the
      ECB?s 2 percent inflation target.
    • This assumption appears reasonably uncontroversial,
      as core inflation is a sub-component of headline inflation, which the observable headline ILS
      rates are tied to.
    • Our estimates of core ILS rates reflect both market participants? genuine core
      inflation expectations and a core inflation risk premium, but our model explicitly allows for
      this decomposition.
    • The model-implied estimates of core ILS rates appear reasonable along several dimensions:
      (i) like realized core inflation is less volatile than headline inflation, the core ILS rates are less
      volatile than headline ILS rates, (ii) core ILS rates comove less with oil prices than headline
      ILS rates, (iii) the core inflation expectations, as reflected in core ILS rates, typically evolve
      similarly as the core inflation projections by Eurosystem staff, and (iv) consistent with market
      commentary at the time, core ILS rates suggest that market participants expected core inflation
      to be substantially more persistent than headline inflation following the 2022 energy price spike.
    • To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to price core ILS rates and decompose them into
      market-based expectations for and risks around the core inflation outlook.
    • Our approach to inferring core ILS
      rates from headline ILS rates, realized headline and core inflation as well as survey expectations
      for headline and core inflation is also related to Ang et al.
    • Relative
      to their study, we separately measure core inflation expectations and risk premia, we provide
      core inflation expectations at a higher-frequency, and we provide evidence on the causal effects

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      of monetary policy shocks on core inflation expectations and risk premia.

    • Specifically, we decompose the synthetic core ILS rates
      into average expected core inflation over the lifetime of the swap contract and a core inflation
      risk premium that compensates investors for core inflation risk.
    • In
      our model below, this term is constant over time and relatively small, so we will simply refer
      to the core inflation risk premium as the difference between the core ILS rate and the average
      expected core inflation over the lifetime of the swap contract.
    • 3.2

      Core ILS rates

      To have a joint model for headline and core ILS rates, we need one further assumption on the
      dynamics of realized core inflation.

    • The assumption that core inflation is driven by the same set of factors as headline inflation
      should be relatively uncontroversial: since headline inflation is a weighted average of core and
      food and energy inflation, it should reflect any factors driving core inflation.
    • If there are factors
      driving food and energy inflation, which do not show up in core inflation, then those factors
      should still show up in headline inflation.
    • In step two, to be able to infer the factor
      loadings of core inflation, we would regress realized core inflation onto the estimated latent
      factors to identify the additional parameters in equation (12).
    • Before the fourth
      quarter of 2016, the SPF did not ask respondents for their core inflation expectations, so we
      are not able to use survey-based information about core inflation before then.
    • Before
      2016, the fitted core inflation series is somewhat above the realized one, potentially reflecting
      that the model has limited information about core inflation over this early period due to the
      lack of information about core inflation from surveys.
    • This could have been the
      case if one of the factors moved core inflation and energy and food inflation in exactly offsetting
      direction, so the overall impact on headline inflation was exactly zero.
    • During 2021, for example, there were

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      Figure 7: Decomposition of synthetic core ILS rates
      2y core ILS

      5y core ILS

      5
      4

      5
      ILS

      premia

      exp

      4

      ILS

      premia

      exp

      3

      3

      2

      2

      1

      1

      0

      0

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      -1

      -2
      2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

      -2
      2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

      10y core ILS

      5y5y core ILS

      5
      4

      5
      ILS

      premia

      exp

      4

      ILS

      premia

      exp

      3

      3

      2

      2

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      0

      0

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      -2
      2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

      -2
      2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

      Note: Synthetic core ILS rates decomposed into genuine core inflation expectations and core inflation risk
      premia.

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      Figure 8: Decomposition of ILS rates
      2y ILS

      5y ILS

      5
      4

      5
      ILS

      premia

      exp

      4

      3

      3

      2

      2

      1

      1

      0

      0

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      -1

      -2
      2006

      2010

      2014

      2018

      2022

      -2
      2006

      ILS

      2010

      10y ILS

      2018

      2022

      5
      ILS

      premia

      exp

      4

      3

      3

      2

      2

      1

      1

      0

      0

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      -2
      2006

      2014

      exp

      5y5y ILS

      5
      4

      premia

      2010

      2014

      2018

      2022

      -2
      2006

      ILS

      2010

      premia

      2014

      2018

      exp

      2022

      Note: ILS rates decomposed into genuine core inflation expectations and core inflation risk premia.

    • We find that the headline inflation risk premium
      indeed does responds more strongly than the core inflation risk premium.
    • The key
      assumption underlying our approach is that traded headline ILS rates span core inflation, which

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      should be reasonably uncontroversial as core inflation is a sub-component of headline inflation.

    • We fit the model to euro area headline ILS rates, realized headline and core inflation, and
      both headline and core inflation expectations reported in the SPF.
    • Decomposing our core ILS rates into genuine core inflation expectations and core
      inflation risk premia shows that shorter maturities mainly reflect core inflation expectations,
      while the core inflation risk premium matters relatively more for longer maturities.
    • Our results suggest that a monetary policy tightening surprise significantly lowers
      near-term core inflation expectations, although less so than it lowers headline inflation expectations.

Gas price shocks and euro area inflation

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We document

Key Points: 
    • We document
      how gas price fluctuations have a heterogeneous pass-through to euro area prices
      depending on the underlying shock driving them.
    • How do gas price shocks feed through to euro area
      inflation, and is the pass-through shock-dependent?
    • We analyse the importance of gas price shocks
      for euro area inflation in two steps.
    • We identify three structural shocks driving European gas prices,
      inspired by the literature on oil but tailored to the European gas market: (i) a gas supply
      shock, which reduces the supply of natural gas to the European market, increases the
      gas price and lowers gas inventories; (ii) an economic activity shock, which lifts demand
      for gas due to higher economic production, and finally (iii) a shock to gas inventories,
      when gas prices are driven by precautionary demand by gas companies.
    • First, all three identified shocks are
      important drivers of gas price dynamics, but they differ in how persistently they push

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      up gas prices.

    • The effect on euro area HICP of a shock to gas supply is more
      persistent and somewhat higher than when gas prices are driven by economic activity
      shocks.
    • A final key finding is that the pass-through of gas market shocks to euro area inflation
      appears non-linear.
    • The unprecedented volatility of gas prices
      contributed to the inflation problem in the euro area, with the gas price shocks feeding
      through producer prices, wages and persistently lifting core inflation.
    • More expensive
      energy contributed substantially to the rise in inflation in Europe during 2022.2

      Figure 1: Gas price and euro area Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices.

    • How do gas price shocks feed through to euro area
      inflation, and is the pass-through shock-dependent?
    • For instance, about 75% of gas imports to the euro area arrives
      through pipelines, making gas imports difficult to substitute and gas markets subject to
      3

      See for example the evidence by Rubaszek and Uddin (2020) for the US economy.

    • We analyse the importance of gas price shocks for
      euro area inflation in two steps.
    • We identify three structural shocks driving European gas prices,
      inspired by the literature on oil but tailored to the European gas market: (i) a gas supply
      shock, which reduces the supply of natural gas to the European market, increases the
      gas price and lowers gas inventories; (ii) an economic activity shock, which lifts demand
      for gas due to higher economic production, and finally (iii) a shock to gas inventories,
      when gas prices are driven by precautionary demand by gas companies.
    • First, all three identified shocks are
      important drivers of gas price dynamics, but they differ in how persistently they push
      up gas prices.
    • But when gas prices are driven by
      inventory demand shocks, the price effect typically dies out within one quarter.
    • A final key finding is that the pass-through of gas market shocks to euro area inflation appears non-linear.
    • The unprecedented volatility of gas prices
      contributed to the inflation problem in the euro area, with the gas price shocks feeding
      through producer prices, wages and persistently lifting core inflation.
    • (2022) and Alessandri and Gazzani (2023) identify gas supply shocks using VAR models,
      finding that gas price shocks lead to persistent increases in headline inflation.14 Ba?bura
      et al.
    • (2023) find positive effects of gas price shocks on core inflation in a BVAR for
      the euro area that includes one type of gas shock along a longer list of macroeconomic
      shocks.
    • 3.1

      Data

      For the gas market BVAR model, we use gas quantities, gas prices, gas inventories and
      euro area industrial production, as displayed in Figure 2.

    • (2015) to optimize

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      the posterior distribution.16 The vector Y includes the European gas quantity proxy, gas
      inventories, the European gas price benchmark and euro area industrial production.

    • As demand for gas increases, the gas price also rises
      while inventories fall as agents use gas in storage to partially satisfy higher demand.
    • Shocks to gas
      quantities driven by gas supply or inventory shocks tend to revert to pre-shock levels after
      around five to seven months, while economic activity shocks lead to a more long-lived
      increase in gas demand.19 Dynamics in gas inventories are more similar across shocks.
    • 3.4

      Historical events in the European gas market

      Before analysing the transmission of the different types of gas shocks to euro area prices,
      we show how the model interprets the unprecedented gas price rise in 2022 in terms of
      driving factors, and compare it with previous historical episodes of heightened gas price
      volatility as a way of validating the model.

    • Inventory shocks play a
      slightly smaller role, accounting for 17% of gas quantity and 23% of gas price fluctuations
      while the residual component (i.e.
    • 4

      Pass-through of gas price shocks to consumer prices

      The pass-through of gas price shocks to inflation is likely to be multi-faceted.

    • We first consider four outcome variables y: the European gas price, euro area HICP,
      core HICP and energy HICP.
    • Third, depending on the driving factor, gas price increases can pass through to core
      inflation in the euro area.
    • The results underline that gas price shocks can have important implications for inflation in the euro area ? depending on the driving factor of higher gas prices.
    • Casoli, C., Manera, M., and Valenti, D. ?Energy shocks in the euro area: disentangling
      the pass-through from oil and gas prices to inflation?.