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This paper uses annual data on 450 SIC four-digit manufacturing industries obtained from the NBER Manufacturing Productivity Database to examine how manufacturing industries respond to unanticipated changes in the federal funds rate. The analysis proceeds in three stages. First, industry price...
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This paper reexamines whether producer prices help predict consumer prices, focusing on model stability and the … for a simple form of instability, however, fails to improve the predictive power of producer prices. Even in models using … prices do not help to forecast consumer prices. …
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magazine cover prices. Among the parameters estimated are the mean, variance, and persistence of the adjustment cost process …
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information. (2) Firms face heterogeneous, fixed menu costs which they must pay to change prices, leading to state …-dependent sticky prices at the micro level. I estimate key structural parameters and show that a model of sticky prices in a sticky …
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prices and wages. Second, the estimated model is used to analyze the welfare properties of various interest rate rules for …
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