We review recent evidence on price rigidity from the macroeconomics literature and discuss how this evidence is used to inform macroeconomic modeling. Sluggish price adjustment is …
We show that most US food, drugstore, and mass-merchandise chains charge nearly uniform prices across stores, despite wide variation in consumer demographics and …
We survey the recent empirical and theoretical developments in the literature on the relation between prices and exchange rates. After updating some of the major findings in the …
How large are the intra-national trade costs that separate consumers in remote locations of developing countries from global markets? What do those barriers imply for the intra …
X Jaravel - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
This article examines how product innovations led to inflation inequality in the United States from 2004 to 2015. Using scanner data from the retail sector, I find that annual inflation for …
N Berman, P Martin, T Mayer - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
This article analyzes the heterogeneous reaction of exporters to real exchange rate changes using a very rich French firm-level data set with destination-specific export values and …
J Stroebel, J Vavra - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
We document a causal response of local retail prices to changes in local house prices, with elasticities of 15–20 percent across housing cycles. These price responses are largest in zip …
PJ Klenow, BA Malin - Handbook of monetary economics, 2010 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a burst of micro price studies. Many studies analyze data underlying national CPIs and PPIs. Others focus on more granular subnational grocery store …
K Manova, Z Yu - Journal of International Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
We examine the global operations of multi-product firms. We present a flexible heterogeneous-firm trade model with either limited or strong scope for quality differentiation …