We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has … domestic labour cost changes to core CPI inflation decreased from 0.25 in the 1980s to just 0.02 in the 2010s, while the … EMEs around the turn of the millennium, which signals increased competition and market contestability. …

This paper studies how a firm should make pricing and transparency decisions when consumers care about supply chain … characteristics. We first show how preferences that account for price and unit cost constrain the firm’s pricing power and profit …

promotions during the first two weeks of the lockdown, and the presence of local pricing retail chains (LP) competing with … uniform (national) pricing retail chains (UP). We decompose the price changes into the regular price, the frequency, and the … heterogeneity in price response also suggests that the price increase was not driven by cost inflation. …

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied … within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly horizontally … that competition drives prices up and reduces total surplus. …

root of different inflation rates in Europe including the EU-27. Among others, we study the structural and cyclical factors … descriptive statistics. Subsequently, we set out the possible mismatches between price level convergence and inflation rates … factors on observed inflation rates first in an accounting framework and then by relying on panel estimations. Our estimation …

is shown that the firm's optimal adjustment strategy may involve stockouts. At low inflation rates, output is inversely … related to the inflation rate, and the length of time demand is satisfied increases with the demand elasticity but decreases …

seigniorage finance. This leads to an increase in inflation which, in turn, reduces capital accumulation and growth. At the …