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We use micro data on product prices linked to information on the firms that set them to test for selection effects …
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We use micro data on product prices linked to information on the firms that set them to test for selection effects …
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inflation is inertial. Microeconomic data indicate that firms change prices frequently. We formulate and estimate a model which … though firms re-optimize prices on average once every 1.5 quarters. The key feature of our model is that capital is firm …
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even though firms in the model reoptimize prices on average once every 1.8 quarters. The key feature of our model … traded in economy-wide rental markets, we find that firms reoptimize their prices on average once every 9 quarters. We argue …
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Asymmetries in price adjustment can reconcile contrasts between rapid price movements in inflationary episodes, consistent with classical theories of flexible pricing, and sluggish price responses in contractions, consistent with Keynesian theories of sticky price adjustments. Nonparametric...
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We study the cyclical properties of sales, regular price changes and average prices paid by consumers ("effective …" prices) using data on prices and quantities sold for numerous retailers across many U.S. metropolitan areas. Inflation in the … effective prices paid by consumers declines significantly with higher unemployment while little change occurs in the inflation …
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Recent empirical research documents that the strong short-term relationship between U.S. monetary aggregates on one side and inflation and real output on the other has mostly disappeared since the early 1980s. Using the direct estimate of flows of U.S. dollars abroad we find that domestic money...
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Recent empirical research found that the strong short-term relationship between monetary aggregates and US real output and inflation, as outlined in the classical study by M. Friedman and Schwartz, mostly disappeared since the early 1980s. In the light of the B. Friedman and Kuttner (1992)...
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Recent empirical research documents that the strong short-term relationship between U.S. monetary aggregates on one side and inflation and real output on the other has mostly disappeared since the early 1980s. Using the direct estimate of flows of USD abroad we find that domestic money (currency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050819