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Bulman, Tim; Simon, John - Reserve Bank of Australia - 2003

This paper examines the effect of inflation on productivity growth in Australia. Broad historical correlations suggest … a negative relationship between inflation and aggregate productivity growth. The low-frequency nature of the … significant results with industry-level inflation explaining industry productivity. We also find that the relationship varies by …

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The Impact of Competition of Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing.

Lever, M.H.C.; Nieuwenhuijsen, H.R. - NEUHUYS - RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM - 1997

The impact of competition on productivty growth is investigated using a panel of observations for 2,000 enterprises in Dutch manufacturing (1978-1993).

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Does Quality Adjustment Matter for Technologically Stable Products? An Application to the CPI for Food

Greenlees, John S.; McClelland, Robert - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2011

For most indexes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) uses a form of the matched-model approach. It has long been recognized that the matched-model method can underestimate quality improvement, and therefore overestimate price inflation, for products exhibiting...

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Price-cost mark-ups in the Spanish economy: a microeconomic perspective

Montero, José Manuel; Urtasun, Alberto - Banco de España - 2014

This paper explores the dynamics of price-cost mark-ups using firm-level data, paying particular attention to the crisis period 2008-2011. To this end, we apply the econometric framework developed by Klette (1999) to a comprehensive sample of Spanish non-financial corporations in order to...

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Financial Constraints and Firms' Pricing Decisions

Kimura, Takeshi - Bank of Japan - 2009

This paper empirically examines the impact of financial constraints on Japanese firms' pricing behavior. In spite of a large swing in demand in the bubble era and the lost decade, aggregate prices did not fluctuate much in these periods. Such price rigidity can be explained by customer market...

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RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL SECTOR IN AUGUST 2014

Tsukhlo, Sergey - In: Russian Economic Developments (2014) 10, pp. 18-20

The initial estimates of August by industrial enterprises received by means of business surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute1 showed improvement of the situation in industry. Actual changes in demand retained the previous dynamics; as a result, the achieved volumes of sales were rated...

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On the Importance of Sales for Aggregate Price Flexibility

Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Vincent, Nicolas - Bank of Canada - 2014

Macroeconomists have traditionally ignored the behavior of temporary price markdowns (“sales”) by retailers. Although sales are common in the micro price data, they are assumed to be unrelated to macroeconomic phenomena and generally filtered out. We challenge this view. First, using the...

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RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL SECTOR IN MAY 2014

Tsukhlo, Sergey - In: Russian Economic Developments (2014) 7, pp. 17-19

According to business surveys of the Gaidar Institute1 carried out in May, the situation in the Russian industry changed for the better. Forecasts of changes in demand, output and employment demonstrate positive dynamics. The stocks of finished products are successfully controlled by...

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Российская промышленность в апреле 2013

Tsukhlo, Sergey - In: Russian Economic Developments (in Russian) (2013) 6, pp. 26-29

Апрельские данные конъюнктурных опросов Института Гайдара показывают явное ухудшение ситуации в российской промышленности. Сокращение спроса увеличивает...

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Российская промышленность в октябре 2013

Tsukhlo, Sergey - In: Russian Economic Developments (in Russian) (2013) 12, pp. 17-19

Согласно данным конъюнктурных опросов Института Гайдара1 октябрь не внес никаких принципиальных изменений ни в динамику спроса, ни в динамику выпуска...

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