Arbeitspapier

Selection effects in producer-price setting

We use micro data on product prices linked to information on the firms that set them to test for selection effects (state dependence) in micro-level producer pricing. In contrast to using synthetic data from a canonical menu-cost model, we find very weak, if any, micro-level selection effects when running price change probability regressions on actual data. Moreover, when fitting a model that nests both time- and state-dependent elements (the CalvoPlus model of Nakamura and Steinsson, 2010) to the data, the resulting parameters mimic the standard Calvo (1983) model. Thus, upstream in the supply chain, price-setting is best characterized as time-dependent.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2014:6

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices
Thema
Price-setting
Business Cycles
Micro Data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Carlsson, Mikael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Uppsala University, Department of Economics
(wo)
Uppsala
(wann)
2014

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-230460
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Carlsson, Mikael
  • Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2014

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