Global indicators can boost inflation forecasts in short term, paper finds

Global inflation indicators and Brent oil price used to augment domestic forecasts

Central Bank of Chile
Central Bank of Chile
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Over a one and 12-month horizon indicators of global inflation could play a major role in providing information for future domestic inflation rates, a working paper published by the Central Bank of Chile finds.

Carlos Medel, in Fuelling future prices: oil price and global inflation, analyses the extent to which global inflation and the Brent oil price provide "valuable information for future domestic inflation rates" in a sample of 53 countries.

"Overall, in almost 90% of the countries the use

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