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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Price Stickiness"”.
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Essays on the macroeconomic implications of financial frictions
… between investment, financing and product price setting decisions. The model implies several testable predictions: (1) financially constrained firms are more inclined to increase their desired markups of products; (2) firms facing larger price stickiness tend to issue less external equity …
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Essays on nominal rigidities, bounded rationality, and macroeconomic policy
… The empirical evidence suggests that prices and wages adjust sluggishly to aggregate shocks, while theoretical models justify why and to what extent these rigidities imply monetary non-neutrality. However, direct evidence on nominal rigidities being the actual channel for the …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Price-setting behavior is a key variable to any central bank, as it determines the nature of price stickiness and the effect of monetary policy on inflation and real variables. As a result, this study examines the price setting behaviours (behavioural mechanisms) of companies in the manufacturing …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Price-setting behavior is a key variable to any central bank, as it determines the nature of price stickiness and the effect of monetary policy on inflation and real variables. As a result, this study examines the price setting behaviours (behavioural mechanisms) of companies in the manufacturing …
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Examining price setting behaviour in Namibia: Evidence from the manufacturing sector
Price-setting behavior is a key variable to any central bank, as it determines the nature of price stickiness and the effect of monetary policy on inflation and real variables. As a result, this study examines the price setting behaviours (behavioural mechanisms) of companies in the manufacturing …
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Essays on dynamic macroeconomics
… open economy model with both staggered nominal prices and wages. Then, performances of some alternative simple policy rules are compared by using the welfare loss criterion. It is shown that, firstly, the performance of domestic inflation-targeting or wage inflation-targeting is better than both …
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Essays on International Macroeconomics and Trade
… quantitative implications of heterogeneity in price stickiness and contractual vulnerability within an open economy context. Particular attention is given to the effects of these frictions on sectoral variables during economic downturns. Chapter 1 documents that U.S. producer prices of …
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Alternative Freight Contracts: Data-driven Design Under Uncertainty
… freight - forcing shippers to rely on higher priced backup providers. These costs intensify when freight markets cycle between periods of over and under supply; soft and tight markets, respectively. We propose an empirical modeling approach utilizing large, detailed microeconomic data sets to …
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Institutional and macroeconomic policy dynamics in transition economies
… A model with monopolistic competition, sticky prices, and variable effort is shown to be able to account for the empirical findings. The findings indicate that technology shocks generate a negative co-movement between labour productivity and employment in South Africa. In addition, the degree …
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Fiscal theory of price level and coordination of monetary and fiscal policies: Understanding the current public debt and inflation dynamics
… high interest rate environment and with greater price stickiness, leading to a greater increase in public debt following a domestic monetary policy shock. In the face of a foreign monetary policy shock, Regime M is more effective at containing the spillover effects of the shock on the South …