We empirically investigate the proposition that firms charge premia on cash prices in transactions involving trade … credit. Using a comprehensive Swedish panel dataset on product-level transaction prices and firm-characteristics, we relate … trade credit issuance to price setting. In a recession characterized by tightened credit conditions, we find that prices …

analysis: the 2008 financial crisis, the 2014-2016 fall in international fuel prices, the COVID-19 pandemic and the post … the depreciation of the exchange rate leads to an increase in imported, producer and consumer inflation of 0.42 p.p., 0 … imported inflation and producer inflation does not seem translate into higher ERPT in consumer inflation. Further studies could …

Concerns about the magnitude and length of exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices have increased in many … prices in Nigeria for the period 1995Q1 - 2015Q1. Utilizing the Johansen approach to cointegration and a vector error … correction methodology, the paper found the exchange rate pass-through into Nigeria's CPI inflation to be incomplete. The long …

This paper introduces a global database that contains inflation series: (i) for a wide range of inflation measures … (headline, food, energy, and core consumer price inflation; producer price inflation; and gross domestic product deflator … available sources, our database constitutes a comprehensive, single source for inflation series. We illustrate the potential use …

Inflation volatility is clearly important for structural analysis, forecasting and policy purposes, yet it is often …

dynamics. It exploits comovement between in ation and the level from which adjusting prices departed. Prices that increase from …

Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have experienced an extraordinary decline in inflation since the early … 1970s. After peaking in 1974 at 17.3 percent, inflation in these economies declined to 3.5 percent in 2017. Despite a … checkered history of managing inflation among many EMDEs, disinflation occurred across all regions. This paper presents a …

employment), inflation and the price level. This paper assesses how these tradeoffs have evolved over time and varied across … outcomes and tradeoffs. We also calculate Sacrifice Ratios (output losses per inflation reduction) and document a historically …

and Galí (2006, 2008) New-Keynesian model of inflation and unemployment, where labor market frictions due to costs of … alternative values of hiring costs as a percentage of GDP. Under low hiring costs - a typical part of the U.S. calibration - for … policy rules based on current period inflation and unemployment our results are similar to those of Bullard and Mitra (2002 …

The New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC), driven by unit labor costs has been criticized for failing to match inflation … the fit of the NKPC, by introducing a fuller marginal cost proxy, 'unit total costs', that is derived from both labor and … non-labor unit costs; the latter includes capital-related costs and production taxes. Borrowing costs are examined …