nominal and real factors in price rigidity. Using two rich datasets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French Consumer Price Indices, we are able to evaluate, the importance of the menu costs and to …. We find that infrequent price changes are not necessarily associated with large menu costs. Indeed, real rigidities …

the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …

This paper examines the process of adjustment of prices in Italy to determine whether nominal flexibility, measured by … the frequency of price changes, has increased in the recent years of protracted stagnation and double-dip recession. The … Consumer Price Index. We find that both the percentage of prices adjusted monthly and the average size of the adjustment have …

dispersion of price changes in eight retail chains in Mexico, and compare them with price statistics stemming from brick and …) change more frequently than those observed on websites (online). However, given a price change, online prices tend to exhibit … larger price changes than their offline counterparts. In 2020, period affected by the pandemic, the above relationship across …

We investigate the relationship between inflation and price variation using highly disaggregated, weekly price data for … consumption goods recorded in Germany during 1995, a low inflation period. We find a significant positive correlation between the … correlated with price changes. As the rate of inflation rises, both variability and dispersion become affected. During …

datasets collected in a period with relatively low and stable inflation. First, price changes are infrequent in the core … change is smaller, but nevertheless larger than inflation. Third, price setting is mildly state-dependent: the probability of … in aggregate inflation, which instead mainly reflected shifts in the average size of price changes. Consistent with …

This paper studies monetary policy rules in a small open economy with Inflation Targeting, incomplete pass-through and … monetary authority should target the consumer price index (CPI) rather than the Domestic Price Index (DPI). When pass …