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 …

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 …

prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …

, which contains detailed information on firm domestic prices, marginal costs, and competitor prices. The rare features of … estimate of firms' price responses to changes in prices of their competitors. We develop a general framework and an empirical …, that these findings have important implications for shaping the response of domestic prices to international shocks. …

We present new empirical evidence for the US economy that inflation reduces the inequality of the earnings distribution … tax brackets slowly to a rise in prices, typically less often than once every other year in the US post-war history. We … higher inflation on income distribution is shown to be rather small. However, we find that a longer duration between two …

aggregate inflation and the higher-order moments of the distribution of relative price changes. Our empirical findings confirm … explanatory variable for the inflation rate. Further, the skewness measure also helps to explain shifts in the Phillips curve …

The paper presents the welfare cost of inflation in a banking time economy that models exchange credit through a bank … welfare cost of a 10% inflation rate instead of zero, for comparison to other estimates, as well as the cost of a 2% inflation … rate instead of a zero inflation rate. The zero rate is specified as the US inflation rate target in the 1978 Employment …