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low inflation economy characterized by relatively frequent administrative price adjustments is examined. Fluctuations of …The impact of macroeconomic management (monetary policy) and administrative price adjustments on price variability in a … administrative price changes and monetary policy. If monetary policy does not account for expected changes in administrative prices …
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between inflation and output stability. While the comovement of price dispersion and inflation implied by standard models is … the data, the comovement of price dispersion and inflation turns positive. Nevertheless, I show that a wide variety of …In macroeconomic models, the level of price dispersion - which is typically approximated through its relationship with …
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frequency vector autoregression (VAR). It shows that potential causalities for inflation, relative price variability, relative …This paper investigates the dynamic interactions of the cross-section distribution of sectoral price changes and the … price skewness, and output growth can be successfully detected by the MFVAR. The cross-section distribution of sectoral …
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We formulate the problems of finding a key sector and a key group of sectors in the economy by the hypothetical extraction method (HEM), and derive their analytic solutions that are termed industries' factor worths. It is shown that the key group of k = 2 sectors is, in general, different from...
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predictions about the level of price dispersion, as well as about its dynamic properties and sensitivity to inflation. These …From a macroeconomic perspective, price rigidity is often perceived to be an important source of price dispersion, with …. For instance, in standard New Keynesian models, the key cost of business cycles stems from the price dispersion resulting …
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, and because it implies a large fall in the standard deviation of price adjustments as trend inflation increases. Even …In this paper, we show that a simple model of smoothly state-dependent pricing generates a distribution of price … adjustments similar to that observed in microeconomic data, both for low and high inflation. Our setup is based on one fundamental …
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inflation we might end up with price increases independent of the inflation rate. The purpose of this teaching note is to … present an approach to estimate nominal price increases examining historical nominal prices and inflation rates. This way we … material, labor, overhead, etc.), cost of future debt, and others. If we set nominal price increases without a proper link to …
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we know about the price-setting behavior of firms, income distribution, and inflation. We do that in juxtaposition to two …The post-pandemic surge in inflation was accompanied by a surge in the corporate share of profits. As a result, several … economists and policy makers have given to it names such as "profit-led inflation" or "sellers' inflation." The present paper …
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inflation, has remained unexplained in terms of its mathematical origins. Keynes had attempted to relate inflation to a … mechanism of "sticky wages and prices". Hitherto, such theories of inflation have remained unproven and disputable. Recently …, during the so-called "New Economy" era, characterized by a spread of electronic transactions and Internet commerce, inflation …
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assess the impact of fossil fuel price increase. We assess that fossil fuels sector has strong forward linkages and increase … in its price has a steep inflationary impact. Using a three-sector I-O model for Indian economy, we estimate that a 10 … per cent increase in fossil fuel price could cause, ceteris paribus, the wholesale price index (WPI) to rise about 4 …
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