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changes does not change much with inflation and does not react much to aggregate shocks; (vi) changes in inflation are mostly … consistent with the predictions of a menu cost model in a low inflation environment where idiosyncratic shocks are a more …
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This paper presents a time-series regression analysis of price in ation at the time of the euro currency changeover in January 2002. Cross-equation tests on twelve euro countries and three non-euro EU countries are used to identify signicant changes in in ation around that time. For a small...
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What are the real effects of inflation? These collected articles constitute what is perhaps the definitive study of … pricing models under inflation, providing a solid basis for further research on this elusive question. Covering a broad range … of theory and applications by well-known microeconomists, the eighteen contributions evaluate the effects of inflation on …
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by nearly double-digit inflation and undergoing massive changes in market structure during the process of transition and …-linear. Product-specific inflation is typically highly persistent. We find that market structure is an important determinant of … depends negatively on the price dispersion and positively on the individual inflation, seems consistent with predictions of …
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A fresh interpretaion is provided of the influential finding that the markup of prices over marginal costs is counter-cyclical. Using Rotemberg and Woodford's data set we argue that the markup is best modelled as a variable that is integrated of order one. A consequence of this finding is that...
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Modern theories of inflation incorporate a vertical long-run Phillips curve and are usually estimated using techniques … that ignore the non-stationary behaviour of inflation. Consequently, the estimates obtained are imprecise and are unable to … distinguish between competing models of inflation and test the veracity of a vertical long-run Phillips curve. We estimate a …
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by movements in inflation and the business cycle. Consequently, based on our data, we find little evidence of a pro …
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, outlets and time. Variations in inflation are strongly correlated with the average size of price changes, but rising inflation …
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's (1994) suggestion that firm price asymmetry is dependent on inflation. …
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The recent enlargement of the European Union has led to a relatively significant increase in the size of the internal market. This has once again shifted attention to the issue whether the anticipated positive growth effects of economic integration are related to the scale of the integrated...
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