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firms' market power in explaining inflation, and in favor of the "sellers' inflation" hypothesis (Weber and Wasner (2023 … changes in costs. Using a rich dataset on French manufacturing firms' balance sheets, we first estimate markups at the firm … energy prices, depending on average market power within sectors. We show that, in sectors with higher markups, prices …
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opposite is the case with markups. If they increase in reaction to higher prices, they contribute to further price increases …
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opposite is the case with markups. If they increase in reaction to higher prices, they contribute to further price increases …
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import prices only to a small extent, it may have a substantial impact on inflation, as it exerts a sizeable impact on the …
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financial shock, firms in financially weak countries (the periphery) maintain{{p}}cashflows by raising markups--in both domestic … and export markets--while firms in financially strong countries (the core) reduce markups, undercutting their financially …
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import prices only to a small extent, it may have a substantial impact on inflation, as it exerts a sizeable impact on the …
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import prices only to a small extent, it may have a substantial impact on inflation, as it exerts a sizeable impact on the …
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's share of national income to the inflation rate (as well as to the output gap, the unemployment rate and the capital stock … inflation and the labor share. Our results suggest that disinflation is not distributively neutral, provide empirical support … negative impact of inflation on growth. …
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In this paper, I use firm-level data from Compustat to document the evolution of markups among listed U.S. non … obfuscates that firms with low pre-pandemic markups command notable markup growth in both 2021 and 2022. Third, I document key … accounts of profit inflation, wherein U.S. firms' market power allowed them to maintain - and, for some firms, increase - their …
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factor prices has a positive effect on markups. We show theoretically that firms with higher shares of inputs with volatile … prices set higher markups. We use the Bartik shift-share approach to empirically test whether firms which use more oil … relative to other inputs set higher markups when oil prices are more volatile. Our estimates imply that a one standard …
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