Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden)
No 290: Selection Effects in Producer-Price Setting
Mikael Carlsson ()
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Mikael Carlsson: Uppsala University, Postal: Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Box 513, 751 20 UPPSALA
Abstract: 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. Also, fitting a model that nests both time- and state-dependent elements (the CalvoPlus model of Nakamura and Steinsson, 2010), the parameters mimic the standard Calvo (1983) model. Thus, upstream in the supply chain, price setting is best characterized by a very low degree of self-selection.
Keywords: Price-setting; Business Cycles; Micro Data
48 pages, November 1, 2014
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