Conventional wisdom suggests that producer prices are more rigid than consumer prices and therefore play less of a role … for the producer price index, we find that producer prices for finished goods and services in fact exhibit roughly the … same rigidity as consumer prices that include sales and substantially less rigidity than consumer prices that exclude them …

Border prices of traded goods are highly sensitive to exchange rates; however, the consumer price index (CPI) and the … retail prices of goods that make up the CPI are more stable. This paper decomposes the sources of this price stability for … distribution margins and imported inputs in transmitting exchange rate fluctuations into consumption prices. We provide rich cross …

traded-goods prices exhibit significant inertia in the face of shocks such as exchange rate changes. This paper uses a … wholesale prices for UPC (Universal Product Code)-level products. Markup adjustments by manufacturers and the retailer explain …

This paper analyzes the pass-through from import prices to consumer price index (CPI) inflation in real time. Our … levels of information breadth. Finally, our empirical findings cast doubt on a prominent role for sticky prices in the low …

This paper quantifies the effects of drug monopolies and low per-capita income on pharmaceutical prices in developing …