What's causing inflation?

Is it 'always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon'?

What's the rationale behind central bank independence?

And what can policy-makers do to curb inflation?

In this episode, Will & Ollie chat with Dr Begoña Domínguez from the UQ School of Economics about all things inflation.

Dr Begoña Domínguez has a PhD in economics from the University of Barcelona, and today conducts research into fiscal and monetary policy, as well as teaching ECON3200 - Monetary Economics. She is also the Vice-President of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society 

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Read More in Statecraft

Michael Steinbeck - The Rhetoric of Responsibility: How the RBA is surfing the inflation wave

Isaac Haynes - The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Crisis of Context

References

See Begoña's UQ Researcher Profile for a list of her recent academic publications.

The latest inflation figures from the RBA. 

The ABS' announcement of their new monthly inflation indicators.

Olivier Blanchard's argument in favour of increasing the inflation target. 

Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens(Recommended by Begoña) 

Garry Kasparov - Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped (Referred to by Begoña regarding the predictability of Russia's invasion of Ukraine)

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