Cost-Push Inflation
Cost-push inflation occurs when rising input, wage, or supply costs push producers to raise prices.
Inflation-type terms used to distinguish demand, cost, creeping, galloping, and hyperinflation pressures.
Core Inflation Types covers inflation, disinflation, deflation, price indexes, purchasing power, indexation, real-versus-nominal measures, and inflation expectations used in finance.
Use these pages when price changes affect interest rates, real returns, margins, wages, pensions, contracts, purchasing power, valuation inputs, or monetary-policy expectations. It sits inside Inflation Types, Causes, and Dynamics, so readers can move up when the broader economics context matters.
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| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Cost-Push Inflation | Cost-push inflation occurs when rising input, wage, or supply costs push producers to raise prices. |
| Creeping Inflation | Creeping inflation is a slow, persistent rise in prices that erodes purchasing power gradually over time. |
| Demand-Pull Inflation | Demand-pull inflation occurs when aggregate demand grows faster than available output, pushing prices higher. |
| Double-Digit Inflation | Double-digit inflation is an annual inflation rate of 10% or more, often signaling severe purchasing-power erosion. |
| Galloping Inflation | Galloping inflation is very rapid inflation that disrupts saving, pricing, contracts, and confidence in money. |
| Hyperinflation | Hyperinflation is a severe economic condition where inflation rates are extraordinarily high, rendering money virtually worthless and destabilizing the economy. |
| Inflation | Broad rise in prices that erodes purchasing power and affects rates, wages, savings, and valuation. |
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Cost-push inflation occurs when rising input, wage, or supply costs push producers to raise prices.
Creeping inflation is a slow, persistent rise in prices that erodes purchasing power gradually over time.
Demand-pull inflation occurs when aggregate demand grows faster than available output, pushing prices higher.
Double-digit inflation is an annual inflation rate of 10% or more, often signaling severe purchasing-power erosion.
Galloping inflation is very rapid inflation that disrupts saving, pricing, contracts, and confidence in money.
Hyperinflation is a severe economic condition where inflation rates are extraordinarily high, rendering money virtually worthless and destabilizing the economy.
Broad rise in prices that erodes purchasing power and affects rates, wages, savings, and valuation.