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Stylized facts from prices at multi-channel retailers in Mexico
Solórzano, Diego - 2023
Using data gathered through web scraping techniques, this paper characterizes product categories' frequency, size and dispersion of price changes in eight retail chains in Mexico, and compare them with price statistics stemming from brick and mortar stores data of the same retailers. Notably,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540916
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Cost-price relationships in a concentrated economy
Bräuning, Falk; Fillat Comenge, José Luis; Joaquim, … - 2023
We use local projections with granular instrumental variables to estimate the aggregate pass-through of costs into prices and how it is affected by industry concentration. On average, we find, prices increase above trend growth for three quarters after an exogenous cost shock, and the price...
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Price duration using daily online data: Time- or state-dependent?
Solórzano, Diego; Arango-Castillo, Lenin - 2024
Using daily retail prices gathered through web scraping in Mexico, we analyze if price changes can be characterized by time-dependent features, like the duration of the price spell, and/or by variables associated with the state of the economy. Through the lens of a duration model, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051823
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Valuation of wind energy projects: A real options approach
Abadie, Luis M.; Chamorro, José M.
diferent reward and/or support schemes. They range from a feed-in tarif to a premium on top of electricity market price, to a … transitory subsidy to capital expenditure. The availability of futures contracts on electricity with ever longer maturities … electricity price (which shows seasonality) and the level of wind generation (which is intermittent in addition to seasonal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152531
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El día de la semana con precios bajos: Evidencia sobre la estacionalidad diaria de los precios de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco
Delajara, Marcelo; Murillo, José Antonio - 2012
In this document we analyze the evidence of daily seasonality found in the weekly price variations of food, beverages, and tobacco in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City. Our research is based on the daily price quotes of 2,724 goods, collected by Banco de México for the Consumer Price Index...
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Revisiting the link between systemic risk and competition based on network theory and interbank exposures
Bátiz-Zuk, Enrique; Lara-Sánchez, José L. - 2021
This paper examines the link between bank competition measures and risk indicators using quarterly interbank exposures data for all banks in Mexico during 2008Q1-2019Q1. The classical literature focuses on disentangling the link between competition and individual bank solvency risk. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162032
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The roles of comovement and inventory investment in the reduction of output volatility
Irvine, F. Owen; Schuh, Scott - 2005
Most of the reduction in GDP volatility since the 1983 is accounted for by a decline in comovement of output among industries that hold inventories. This decline is not simply a passive byproduct of reduced volatility in common factors or shocks. Instead, structural changes occurred in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280925
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The puzzle of industrial enterprises in Romania over a century: 1918-2017
Chivu, Luminita - 2019
The configuration of industrial enterprises in Romania, in terms of numbers and structure, in relation to their characteristics, mirrors the Romanian economy and society at large, in their chronological development. Marked by the changes in the technological and economic paradigm, by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511922
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Resource use efficiency of US electricity generating plants during the SO2 trading regime: A distance function approach.
Kumar, Surender; Gupta, Sreekant - 2004
This paper measures resource use efficiency of electricity generating plants in the United States under the SO2 trading … latter is the ratio of good output (electricity) to bad output (SO2) with reference to the best practice firm, i.e., one that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005748799
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Evaluación del poder de predicción de las expectativas de inflación de los consumidores en México
Murillo, José Antonio; Sanchez Romeu, Paula - 2012
This paper introduces an indicator of consumers' inflation expectations based on data from the National Consumer Confidence Survey of Mexico (ENCO, in Spanish), and tests its predictive power over CPI inflation and other measures of inflation that correspond to smaller baskets of consumer goods,...
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