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processes in the two sectors. Restrictions from this model are used with data on wages and prices to construct measures of …
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, our results indicate that the share of firms that change prices each quarter is just over 60 percent, broadly in line with … gathering/processing costs, we find that most firms that change prices are rule-of-thumb price setters. Finally, compared to …
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We study the purchasing power parity (PPP) puzzle in a multi-sector, two-country, sticky- price model. Across sectors, firms differ in the extent of price stickiness, in accordance with recent microeconomic evidence on price setting in various countries. Combined with local currency pricing,...
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findings of excess sensitivity of consumption and asset prices to new information. …
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Data on international relative prices from industrialized countries show large and systematic deviations from relative … international relative prices. We find that when our model is parameterized to match salient features of the data on international …
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productivity" channel. The relative price channel results from changes in the relative prices of aggregates, such as investment vis …
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We investigate the extent to which inflation targeting helps anchor long-run inflation expectations by comparing the behavior of daily bond yield data in the United Kingdom and Sweden--both inflation targeters--to that in the United States, a non-inflation-targeter. Using the difference between...
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Remarks at the Rotary Club of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, July 20, 2009
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volatility of prices implied by the present-value model. This finding suggests that specifying risk neutrality may induce a bias …" (or "ex post rational") stock prices. Consequently, while high risk aversion implies high volatility in some settings, it …
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relative prices in microeconomic data is much faster. This paper finds that adjustment to the law of one price in disaggregated … qualitatively distinct process, working through adjustment in local-currency goods prices. These distinct adjustment dynamics appear … nesting aggregate and disaggregated relative prices permits identification of distinct macroeconomic and good-specific shocks …
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