We empirically investigate the proposition that firms charge premia on cash prices in transactions involving trade … credit. Using a comprehensive Swedish panel dataset on product-level transaction prices and firm-characteristics, we relate … trade credit issuance to price setting. In a recession characterized by tightened credit conditions, we find that prices …

Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have experienced an extraordinary decline in inflation since the early … 1970s. After peaking in 1974 at 17.3 percent, inflation in these economies declined to 3.5 percent in 2017. Despite a … checkered history of managing inflation among many EMDEs, disinflation occurred across all regions. This paper presents a …

We empirically investigate the proposition that firms charge premia on cash prices in transactions involving trade … credit. Using a comprehensive Swedish panel dataset on product-level transaction prices and firm-characteristics, we relate … trade credit issuance to price setting. In a recession characterized by tightened credit conditions, we find that prices …

dynamics. It exploits comovement between in ation and the level from which adjusting prices departed. Prices that increase from …

.The paper shows that declining nominal prices were a rather common phenomenon during this period of low or no inflation ….This was a period of very low inflation.The rate of growth in the aggregate price level was occasionally very close to zero ….The declining prices cannot, however, be explained by lack of demand or any generalized deflationary tendencies.Hence, the downward …

Concerns about the magnitude and length of exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices have increased in many … prices in Nigeria for the period 1995Q1 - 2015Q1. Utilizing the Johansen approach to cointegration and a vector error … correction methodology, the paper found the exchange rate pass-through into Nigeria's CPI inflation to be incomplete. The long …

This paper introduces a global database that contains inflation series: (i) for a wide range of inflation measures … (headline, food, energy, and core consumer price inflation; producer price inflation; and gross domestic product deflator … available sources, our database constitutes a comprehensive, single source for inflation series. We illustrate the potential use …

Inflation volatility is clearly important for structural analysis, forecasting and policy purposes, yet it is often …

Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have experienced an extraordinary decline in inflation since the early … 1970s. After peaking in 1974 at 17.3 percent, inflation in these economies declined to 3.5 percent in 2017. Despite a … checkered history of managing inflation among many EMDEs, disinflation occurred across all regions. This paper presents a …