model we apply it to optimal pricing policies. We use a large Austrian data set, which consists of the direct price …, regressing the proportion of attractive prices and, separately, the excess proportion of price changes at the beginning of a year … of price changes, the higher is the incidence of time- and state-regular adjustment …

We study cross-country price differences in the European market for new passenger cars based on detailed pricing and … technical data. Car prices in Europe converged until the year 2003, but not thereafter. Within the EU 15 countries the price … range of the median model in 2004 was close to 20 percent. We document a source of international price differentiation …

This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios or markups for 50 sectors in 8 euro area countries and the …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price … data from the German Consumer Price Index that covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state …-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in quot;unconditionalquot; sectoral price flexibility are found to be …

This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios or markups for 50 sectors in 8 euro area countries and the …

This paper provides some new empirical features on price setting behaviour for French producers using micro data … underlying the producer and business-services price indices over the period 1994-2005. Some crucial methodological issues on the … collection of producer prices are raised. Then, the main features of producers' price setting are presented: producer prices are …

that the countercyclical behaviour of price margins is strengthened by the expected persistence of demand and the …

We provide new evidence on price rigidity at the product level based on microdata underlying the Swiss consumer price … index from 2008 to 2020. We find that the frequency of price changes has increased over the last decade, particularly among … products where collection switched to online prices, reflecting the rise of e-commerce. Furthermore, price changes tend to be …