Från insatspris till konsumentpris - En empirisk analys av pristransmission i den svenska livsmedelskedjan under perioden 2015-2024.
(2026) NEKH03 20252Department of Economics
- Abstract
- Recent increases in Swedish food prices have raised concerns about how input cost changes are transmitted to consumers. This study examines the extent and timing of price transmission in the Swedish food sector and whether the relationship changed after 2020, a period characterized by major macroeconomic and supply-chain shocks. Using monthly data for 2015-2024, we estimate first-differences panel regressions for three product groups with different production structures and import exposure. Consumer price indices are matched with upstream cost proxies and estimated with contemporaneous and lagged cost changes, macroeconomic controls and interactions capturing post-2020 supply-chain shocks. The results suggest that price transmission is... (More)
- Recent increases in Swedish food prices have raised concerns about how input cost changes are transmitted to consumers. This study examines the extent and timing of price transmission in the Swedish food sector and whether the relationship changed after 2020, a period characterized by major macroeconomic and supply-chain shocks. Using monthly data for 2015-2024, we estimate first-differences panel regressions for three product groups with different production structures and import exposure. Consumer price indices are matched with upstream cost proxies and estimated with contemporaneous and lagged cost changes, macroeconomic controls and interactions capturing post-2020 supply-chain shocks. The results suggest that price transmission is heterogeneous across the Swedish food sector, with both its magnitude and timing shaped by supply-chain structure and the extent to which cost proxies capture relevant marginal costs. Given the use of aggregated cost proxies and reduced-form first-difference regressions, results should be interpreted as correlations consistent with price transmission rather than causal estimates. (Less)
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- author
- Gruvberger, Matilda LU and Edlund Bäckström, Tilde LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKH03 20252
- year
- 2026
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Price transmission, consumer food prices, supply-chain shocks, Cournot competition, food supply chain
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9220458
- date added to LUP
- 2026-02-04 08:25:07
- date last changed
- 2026-02-04 08:25:07
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abstract = {{Recent increases in Swedish food prices have raised concerns about how input cost changes are transmitted to consumers. This study examines the extent and timing of price transmission in the Swedish food sector and whether the relationship changed after 2020, a period characterized by major macroeconomic and supply-chain shocks. Using monthly data for 2015-2024, we estimate first-differences panel regressions for three product groups with different production structures and import exposure. Consumer price indices are matched with upstream cost proxies and estimated with contemporaneous and lagged cost changes, macroeconomic controls and interactions capturing post-2020 supply-chain shocks. The results suggest that price transmission is heterogeneous across the Swedish food sector, with both its magnitude and timing shaped by supply-chain structure and the extent to which cost proxies capture relevant marginal costs. Given the use of aggregated cost proxies and reduced-form first-difference regressions, results should be interpreted as correlations consistent with price transmission rather than causal estimates.}},
author = {{Gruvberger, Matilda and Edlund Bäckström, Tilde}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Från insatspris till konsumentpris - En empirisk analys av pristransmission i den svenska livsmedelskedjan under perioden 2015-2024.}},
year = {{2026}},
}