elasticity and Frisch elasticity of labor supply. Overall, our results suggest that the main effects of openness are on the … composition of expenditure, and on the wedge between consumer and domestic prices, rather than on the response of aggregate output … and domestic prices. …

the special case in which prices are sticky and wages are perfectly flexible. When the model is calibrated to exhibit an …

If price levels are initially different across the euro area, convergence to a common level of prices would imply that … inflation will be higher in countries where prices are initially low. Price level convergence thus provides a potential … between 1990 and 1999 prices did become less dispersed in the euro area. Convergence is especially evident for traded goods …

We reexamine the evidence for border effects in deviations from the law of one price, using data for consumer prices … rather than price index data. We find evidence of border effects both in the levels of prices and the percentage change in … prices. Even accounting for distance between cities and relative population sizes, we find that the absolute difference …

.S.-Mexican relative prices and find that it is nearly an order of magnitude larger than for U.S.-Canadian prices. However, during a very … very slightly. We also present evidence that the border effect in U.S.-Mexican prices is not primarily due to the border … effect in U.S.-Mexican wages. Finally, using the prices of 276 highly dis-aggregated goods and services, we estimate the …