What Is Sectoral or Demand Shift Inflation?

The “sectoral demand theory” of inflation emphasizes the fact that prices are highly flexible upwards but relatively rigid downwards, for example, there may be rise in prices in the agricultural sector where there is scarcity whereas price stability in the industrial sector where there is an excess supply

excess supply
In economics, an excess supply, economic surplus market surplus or briefly surply is a situation in which the quantity of a good or service supplied is more than the quantity demanded, and the price is above the equilibrium level determined by supply and demand.
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What is sectoral inflation?

Sectoral Inflation refers to the rise in prices occurring in different commercial sectors of a country. With the rise in prices of different raw materials, the prices of the finished products in diverse sectors increase simultaneously, leading to the initiation of Sectoral Inflation.

What is demand shift inflation?

Thus demand-shift inflationary process “arises initially out of excess demand in particular industries. But it results in a general price rise only because of the downward rigidities and cost-oriented nature of prices and wages. ... It has since been generalised in the case of modern industrial economies.

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