Supply-side effects of strong energy price hikes in German industry and transportation

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The paper studies the short-term effects of energy price hikes on the supply of industrial goods and transport services including the repercussions on remuneration of input factors. While industry had suffered more strongly from the oil price shock of the late 1970s compared with the one of the early 1970s and the 2004-08 upsurge, evidence is reverse for transportation. Regarding the impact on the income distribution, both sectors share the pattern that in the recent episode rising energy costs were more than compensated by falling unit labor costs while in the 1970s cost structures had been strained by expansive wage policy in addition to the oil price shocks.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-3-86558-556-1
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Paper Series 1 ; No. 2009,26

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Macroeconomics: Production ; Aggregate Factor Income Distribution ; Energy and the Macroeconomy
• Subject: Energy prices ; supply of goods and services ; income distribution ; Mineralölpreisschock ; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe ; Verkehrsgewerbe ; Angebot ; Verteilungswirkung ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Knetsch, Thomas A. ; Molzahn, Alexander
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsche Bundesbank
• (where): Frankfurt a. M.
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/28116
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET