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 …

, 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. …

In this paper we propose a straightforward method to derive a non-accelerating inflation capacity utilisation rate … adjustments. The non-accelerating inflation capacity utilisation rate is then defined as the rate where a firm feels no price …

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 …

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. …

In this paper we explore the link between the intensity of product market competition and inflation rates across EU … countries and sectors. We consider long-term averages of inflation rates in order to remove the cyclical behavior of inflation … product market competition, as proxied by the level of mark-up in particular, is an important driver of inflation …