We use an agent-based computational approach to show how inflation can worsen macroeconomic performance by disrupting … of inflation above 3 percent has a substantial deleterious effect, but lowering it below 3 percent has no significant … may fail to detect a significant negative effect of trend inflation on output even when such an effect exists in reality. …

We investigate the relationship between inflation and price variation using highly disaggregated, weekly price data for … consumption goods recorded in Germany during 1995, a low inflation period. We find a significant positive correlation between the … correlated with price changes. As the rate of inflation rises, both variability and dispersion become affected. During …

We use an agent-based computational approach to show how inflation can worsen macroeconomic performance by disrupting … of inflation above 3 percent has a substantial deleterious effect, but lowering it below 3 percent has no significant … may fail to detect a significant negative effect of trend inflation on output even when such an effect exists in reality. …

by nearly double-digit inflation and undergoing massive changes in market structure during the process of transition and …-linear. Product-specific inflation is typically highly persistent. We find that market structure is an important determinant of … depends negatively on the price dispersion and positively on the individual inflation, seems consistent with predictions of …

A model of firm-level optimal pricing under stochastic inflation and fixed costs of adjusting prices is solved and … characterized. In this model, inflation alternates stochastically between some positive rate g and zero inflation. We find that a … different (s,S) band for each state of the world, with the zero-inflation band wholly contained in the positive-inflation band …

Many existing studies have found a correlation between inflation and price dispersion in goods markets. In this paper …