Natural Gas and the Macroeconomy: Not all Energy Shocks are Alike

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Date Written: November 17, 2023

Abstract

How do shocks to the supply of natural gas affect output and inflation? To answer this question, we construct an instrument using daily news on the European gas market and employ it within a VAR model of the Euro Area. We find that negative supply shocks have sizable stagflationary effects and that they accounted for nearly 50 percent of the increase in core prices observed between 2021 and 2023. The propagation to core prices appears to be larger compared to oil shocks, suggesting that the structural differences between the two markets matter from an aggregate perspective. 

Keywords: natural gas prices, inflation, narrative identification, Bayesian VAR

JEL Classification: E31, E32, Q35, Q43

Suggested Citation

Alessandri, Piergiorgio and Gazzani, Andrea Giovanni, Natural Gas and the Macroeconomy: Not all Energy Shocks are Alike (November 17, 2023). Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1428, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4849427 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4849427

Piergiorgio Alessandri (Contact Author)

Bank of Italy ( email )

Via Nazionale 91
Rome, 00184
Italy

Andrea Giovanni Gazzani

Bank of Italy ( email )

Via Nazionale 91
Rome, 00184
Italy

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