For the first time in the literature, this paper uses survey-based measures of inflation expectations to examine the relationship between inflation and relative price variability (RPV). Using quarterly consumer price index data for 74 consumption categories in Australia from 1989 to 2014, we...

This paper estimates a fixed effects regression model using panel data on prices for U.S. cities to test the supply-side theory of inflation that takes the distribution of relative price changes as an aggregate supply shock. The results indicate that the positive correlation between inflation...

Estimates of the half-life to convergence of prices across a panel of cities are subject to bias from three potential sources: inappropriate cross-sectional aggregation of heterogeneous coefficients, presence of lagged dependent variables in a model with individual fixed effects, and time...