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the small.” Furthermore, it turns out that inflation offers only a partial explanation for the finding. Indeed …, substantial proportion of the asymmetry remains unexplained, even after accounting for the inflation. For example, the asymmetry … holds also after excluding periods of inflation from the data, and even for products whose price had not increased. The …
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Inflation is painful, for firms, customers, employees, and society. But careful study of periods of hyperinflation …
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rigidity during a period of a runaway inflation, when the annual inflation rate was in the range of 60%–430%. Surprisingly, we … price adjustments even in a period of a runaway inflation, when 85 percent of the prices change every month …
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The marketplace, along with its price system, is the single most important institution in a western-style free enterprise economy. The ability of prices to adjust to changes in supply and demand conditions enables the market to function efficiently and lies behind the magical invisible hand...
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The price system, the adjustment of prices to changes in market conditions, is the primary mechanism by which markets function and by which the three most basic questions get answered: what to produce, how much to produce and for whom to produce. To the behaviour of price and price system,...
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If producers have more information than consumers about goods’ attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices don't change. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity per...
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If producers have more information than consumers about goods’ attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices remain sticky. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity (per...
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European Central Bank’s Inflation Persistence Network. …
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If producers have more information than consumers about goods’ attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices don't change. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity per...
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If producers have more information than consumers about goods’ attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices don't change. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093856