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This paper estimates monthly pass-through ratios from import prices to consumer prices in real time. Conventional time … series methods impose restrictions to generate exogenous shocks on exchange rates or import prices when estimating pass …-through coefficients. Instead, a natural experiment based on data releases defines our shock to foreign prices. Our estimation strategy …
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The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is the primary measure of inflation in the euro area, and plays a … stability as "…a year-on-year increase in the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) for the euro area of below 2 percent …
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Volatile and persistent real exchange rates are observed not only in aggregate series but also on the individual good level data. Kehoe and Midrigan (2007) recently showed that, under a standard assumption on nominal price stickiness, empirical frequencies of micro price adjustment cannot...
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national average prices for the 59 item prices using population weights instead of the equal weight formula used by ACCRA. This …
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We study a newly constructed panel data set of relative prices of a large number of consumer goods among 31 European …
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This paper reviews various approaches to the measurement of core inflation that have been proposed in recent years. The objective is to determine whether the European Central Bank (ECB) should pay special attention to one or other of these measures in assessing inflation developments in the euro...
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