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Inflation, Price Dispersion, and Market Structure
Caglayan, Mustafa O.; Filiztekin, Alpay; Rauh, Michael T. - 2014
to re-examine the relationship between price dispersion and inflation. Although existing evidence is mixed, we find …-specific inflation on the other. We also find evidence that dispersion is initially decreasing in anticipated aggregate inflation but is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054982
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Price setting and market structure: An empirical analysis of micro data
Coricelli, Fabrizio; Horváth, Roman - 2008
of pricing behavior. The effect of market structure on persistence of inflation results from two conflicting forces … the frequency of price changes depends negatively on the price dispersion and positively on the product-specific inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322329
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Price setting and market structure : an empirical analysis of micro data
Coricelli, Fabrizio (contributor);  … - 2008
of pricing behavior. The effect of market structure on persistence of inflation results from two conflicting forces … the frequency of price changes depends negatively on the price dispersion and positively on the product-specific inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790192
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Price Setting and Market Structure : An Empirical Analysis of Micro Data
Coricelli, Fabrizio; Horvath, Roman - 2008
of pricing behavior. The effect of market structure on persistence of inflation results from two conflicting forces … the frequency of price changes depends negatively on the price dispersion and positively on the product-specific inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212310
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Trade openness, market competition, and inflation: Some sectoral evidence from OECD countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S. - 2011
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280812
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Efficiency, market structure and performance of the insurance industry in an emerging economy
Ofori-Boateng, Kenneth; Ohemeng, Williams; Boro, Ernest … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-14
This paper investigated the structure of the market, efficiency and performance (profitability) of the general insurance industry in the Ghanaian economy. The overriding objective was to evaluate the impact that regulatory informed market structure would have on the pricing behaviour; examining...
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Trade openness, market competition, and inflation : some sectoral evidence from OECD countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon-sun - 2011
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489291
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Accounting for the multiple sources of inflation : an agent-based model investigation
Ciambezi, Leonardo; Guerini, Mattia; Napoletano, Mauro; … - 2024
determination of inflation dynamics. The model is characterized by local interactions of heterogeneous firms and households in the … relative prices but also on firm size. We show that our model is able to generate realistic inflation dynamics, as well as a … inflation stemming from a tight labor market only holds when markets are competitive and efficient. Finally, we study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014531949
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Market structure and cost pass-through in retail
Hong, Gee Hee; Li, Nicholas - 2013
We examine the extent to which vertical and horizontal market structure can together explain incomplete retail pass-through. To answer this question, we use scanner data from a large U.S. retailer to estimate product level pass-through for three different vertical structures: national brands,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714472
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On the importance of sales for aggregate price flexibility
Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Vincent, Nicolas - 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 1996 -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418254