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opposite is the case with markups. If they increase in reaction to higher prices, they contribute to further price increases …
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sectoral regional inflation rates and exhibits much less volatility than previous findings for the US indicate. We further … role in addition to the sector-specific factors, emphasising heterogeneity of inflation dynamics along different dimensions …
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between inflation dynamics and rising market concentration. …
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-chain pressures eased, these firms were able to further increase markups due to the stickiness of inflation expectations. The …We document how supply-chain pressures, household inflation expectations, and firm pricing power interacted to induce … the pandemic-era surge in consumer price inflation in the euro area. Initially, supply-chain pressures increased inflation …
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How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? In this paper, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firm price responses to changes in prices of their competitors. We develop a general framework and an empirical identification strategy to estimate the elasticities...
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contributions in the literature, we obtain exogenous credit supply shifters and markups that are both firm specific and time varying …. We uncover new findings at this level. In particular, firms more exposed to liquidity risks tend to raise markups in … firms have an incentive to raise markups in order to sustain liquidity. Our results have important economic implications …
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Time-varying exchange rate pass-through effects to domestic prices under fixed euro exchange rate perspective represent one of the most challenging implications of the common currency. The problem is even more crucial when examining crisis related redistributive effects associated with relative...
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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 …
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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 …
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We empirically examine and compare the determinants of producer and consumer price inflation in 10 Asian economies … are more important in explaining producer price inflation than consumer price inflation in the 10 Asian economies. On the … other hand, for consumer prices, demand-pull factors still explain much of the inflation. Finally, we find that the …
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