We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in ?unconditional? sectoral price flexibility are found to be linked to … data from the German Consumer Price Index which covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in quot;unconditionalquot; sectoral price flexibility are found to be … data from the German Consumer Price Index that covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price … statedependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in “unconditional” sectoral price flexibility are found to be … data from the German Consumer Price Index that covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and …

explain the persistence of inflation. However, both of these theories are inconsistent with the micro data on prices. In this … difference between the GTE and its popular alternatives in terms of inflation persistence, a difference arises when it comes to …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in ?unconditional? sectoral price flexibility are found to be linked to … data from the German Consumer Price Index which covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state …

nominal and real factors in price rigidity. Using two rich datasets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French Consumer Price Indices, we are able to evaluate, the importance of the menu costs and to …. We find that infrequent price changes are not necessarily associated with large menu costs. Indeed, real rigidities …

the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …