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adjustments similar to that observed in microeconomic data, both for low and high inflation. Our setup is based on one fundamental …, and because it implies a large fall in the standard deviation of price adjustments as trend inflation increases. Even …-behaved when we change the steady state inflation rate, matching the data at least as well as Golosov and Lucas' model. …
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This paper presents original evidence on price setting in the euro area at the individual level. We use micro data on consumer (CPI) and producer (PPI) prices, as well as survey information. Our main findings are: (i) prices in the euro area are sticky and more so than in the US; (ii) there is...
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This paper reports the results of a survey carried out by the Banco de España on a sample of around 2000 Spanish firms to deepen the understanding of firms' price setting behaviour. The main findings may be summarised as follows. Most Spanish firms are price setters that use predominantly state...
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to iid and autocorrelated money growth shocks, and decompose the inflation impact into 'intensive margin', 'extensive … inflation and output. The real effects are substantially larger if money growth is autocorrelated. In contrast, if we instead … impose a fixed menu cost specification, money growth shocks cause a sharp spike in inflation (via the selection component) so …
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restructuring and defaults; in the United Kingdom inflation has dominated, eroding the value of debt; and in Ireland and Spain the …
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We analyse the incidence of endogenous entry and firm TFP-heterogeneity on the response of aggregate inflation to … distribution of firms in Spain. We then compare the inflation response to technology, interest rate and entry cost shocks, among … others. We find that structures in which large (more productive) firms predominate tend to deliver more muted inflation …
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causality of the oil price by US inflation as is consistent with the theory. …
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The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the implications for aggregate price dynamics of alternative characterizations of microeconomic price adjustment policies. Within the hazard adjustment framework developed in Caballero and Engel (1993a), we present alternative models of individual price...
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The main contribution of this paper is to jointly estimate the effects of financial development and inflation on growth …. We aim to exploit both the cross-section and the time-series dimension of the data on inflation, growth and some banking …, that the long-run costs of inflation are not explained by policies of financial repression, and second, that if inflation …
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as a tool to compare the characteristics of European inflation dynamics with those observed in the U.S. We also analyse … the factors underlying inflation inertia by examining the cyclical behavior of marginal costs, as well as that of its two …
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