Date The role of demand and supply factors in HICP inflation during the COVID-19 pandemic – a disaggregated perspective 0 / 0 x Prepared by Derry O’Brien, Clémence Dumoncel and Eduardo Gonçalves Introduction The economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is not a standard textbook shock. Instead the shock is multidimensional, with sources on both the external and the domestic side, on both the demand and the supply side, and at both the aggregate and the sector-specific level. This poses challenges for the assessment of inflation...