This paper looks at disaggregated price data in the U.K. to see if there is evidence of downward nominal rigidity: are prices less likely to fall after a downward shock than they are to rise after an upward shock? The test is to see if, as the mean inflation rate falls, the skewness, or the...

This paper presents some more evidence on the empirical regularity known as `45-degree rule'. We estimate income and price elasticities of trade for 21 countries in a cointegration framework. More specifically, we adopt the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach and the DOLS procedure to...