How rigid are producer prices? A longstanding conventional wisdom among economists holds that producer prices are more rigid than, and so play less of an allocative role than do, consumer prices. In the 1987-2008 microdata collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the producer price...

The inertia of the local currency prices of traded goods in the face of exchange rate changes is a well-documented phenomenon in international economics. This paper develops a structural model to identify the sources of this local currency price stability and applies it to micro data from the...