domestic product, the real exchange rate, fiscal and trade balances, and inflation to global demand, commodity price, monetary … especially to global demand fluctuations associated with declines in commodity prices. However, despite the similarities that …

This paper examines the effect of minimum wage changes on local aggregate inflation and consumption growth. The paper … effect on both city-level inflation and spending growth over the years following the change. The most noticeable effects are …

The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the United States suggests that semiconductor prices have barely been falling in … improve at a rapid pace. Over the course of the 2000s, the MPU prices posted by Intel, the dominant producer of MPUs, became … measure of price change since then. MPU prices fell rapidly through 2004 on every price measure we present, with the PPI …

We study a unique dataset with comprehensive coverage of daily prices in large multi-product retailers in Israel …

endogenously generated by the presence of adjustment costs, when moderate inflation prevailed the asymmetric behaviour of prices … pronounced as average inflation declines. Consumer price changes in Italy in fact exhibit quite a pronounced positive asymmetry … moving from a high to a low inflation environment. On the basis of a Granger-causality analysis we show that, while the …

We examine the relationship between prices and interest rates for seven advanced economies in the period up to 1913 …, emphasizing the UK. There is a significant long-run positive relationship between prices and interest rates for the core commodity …

link between relative prices and exchange rate (1957-2010). We use a unit root test that allows for two structural changes … follows the behavior of relative prices of both countries. …

tradable goods such as food may be misplaced because of the emerging literature on the rapid convergence of traded goods prices … within the PRC that contrasts with earlier claims of fragmented internal markets. In a setting where traded goods prices … spatially-disaggregated indices of house prices which are then used as spatial deflators for both provinces and core urban …

This article explores the convergence in consumer prices for groups of countries within the European Economic and … consumer prices was lowest in the euro area. Price level comparisons carried out between Austria and Germany/Italy revealed … convergence in the case of both consumer goods and services, except for food prices. The latter is likely to have been due …

In this paper the issue of causality between wages and prices in R. Macedonia has been tested. OLS relationship between … prices and wages is positive; productivity is not significant in determination of prices or wages too. Engle-Granger test …