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trade credit issuance to price setting. In a recession characterized by tightened credit conditions, we find that prices … funding costs and counterparty risks. Our results thus demonstrate the importance of trade credit for price setting and show …
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decompose the change in the price-change distribution by potential explanatory factors, about 63 percent of the decrease in the … price-change dispersion can be attributed to a decrease in the cross-sectional variance of inflation expectations. The lower …
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We characterize the dispersion of firm-level productivity and demand shocks using Swedish microdata including prices and utilization and analyse the consequences for firms and the aggregate economy. Demand dispersion increases by more than TFPQ dispersion in recessions. Productivity shocks pass...
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extent the price structure reflects the estimated cost structure. We find that (i) banks tend to use two-part tariffs but (ii …
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This paper reports the results from a survey on price-setting behavior of a large random sample of Swedish firms …. Prices are found to adjust only infrequently; the median firm adjusts the price once a year. State-dependent pricing is found … research, four of the theories of price rigidity are ranked by the respondents among the top-five places in all three studies. …
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Two-sided network effects in card payment systems are analysed under different market structures, e.g., competition, one-sided monopoly, bilateral monopoly and duopoly; with and without an interchange fee; for the so-called Baxter's case of non-strategic merchants. A partial ranking of market...
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This paper addresses the dynamics of the Swedish external position, with a particular focus on its inter-relation with the external value of the krona. We argue that financial globalisation means that a broader conceptual framework is required, whereby exchange rate fluctuations operate through...
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This paper studies the relationship between macroeconomic fluctuations and corporate defaults while conditioning on industry affliation and an extensive set of firm-specific factors. By using a panel data set for virtually all incorporated Swedish businesses over 1990-2009, a period which...
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exchange rate following a certain exogenous shock, with a structural econometric approach using data for Sweden, a small … standard structural macroeconomic models would indicate. For Sweden, the CERPT is negative not only for domestic but also for …
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This paper uses unique administrative data and a quasi-field experiment of exogenous allocation in Sweden to estimate …
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