We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …

synchronized within rather than across stores. Time variations in inflation can be attributed mainly to variations in the frequency …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …

cross-country differences in the mismatch of perceived and actual inflation in the aftermath of the cash changeover are …

Survey. All things being equal, financially constrained firms charge higher markups when faced with low demand; this …

In this paper we explore the link between the intensity of product market competition and inflation rates across EU … countries and sectors. We consider long-term averages of inflation rates in order to remove the cyclical behavior of inflation … product market competition, as proxied by the level of mark-up in particular, is an important driver of inflation …

setting behaviour of Portuguese firms. Inflation, the level of economic activity and the magnitude of the last price change …

This paper shows that inflation in industrialized countries is largely a global phenomenon. First, inflations of (22 … associated to Global Inflation is not only due to the trend components of inflation (up from 1960 to 1980 and down thereafter …) but also to fluctuations at business cycle frequencies. Second, Global Inflation is, consistently with standard models of …