sales; (iv) price changes related to sales and product replacements are less driven by inflation variations than regular … price changes; (v) the monthly inflation rate is correlated to the frequencies of price decreases and increases. The …Using micro price data covering the Great Recession period, we document new facts on price rigidity in France: (i) each …

price trend, i.e. the persistent component of measured inflation. This price trend is therefore assumed to be free of … price trend. The principal finding of the study is that core inflation rates - irrespective of the method chosen - are not …This study compares different methods of calculating the core inflation rate, the latter being taken as the general …