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Readings on Pricing

  1. Asplund, M., R. Eriksson and R. Friberg (2000), “Price Adjustments by a Gasoline Retail Chain”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 102(1), 101-121

  2. Aucremanne, L. and Dhyne, E. (2004), “How frequently do prices change: Empirical evidence based on the micro data underlying the Belgian CPI”, Working Paper, No. 44, National Bank of Belgium.

  3. Aucremanne, L. and Dhyne, E. (2005), “Time-dependent versus State-dependent Pricing: A Panel Data Approach to the Determinants of Belgian Consumer Price Changes”, Working Paper, No. 66, National Bank of Belgium. 

  4. Ball, L. and N. G. Mankiw (1994), “A sticky-price manifesto”, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 41, 127-151; or NBER working paper No. 4677.

  5. Baudry, L., Le Bihan H., Sevestre P. and S. Tarrieu (2004), “Price Rigidity. Evidence from the French CPI Micro-Data”, European Central Bank Working Paper N◦384, August or Notes d’Etudes et de Recherche N◦113, Banque de France, September.

  6. Bils, M. and P. J. Klenow (2002), “Some Evidence of the Importance of Sticky Prices”, NBER Working Paper No. 9069.

  7. Blanchard, O. J. (1994), Comment of Blinder A. S., “On Sticky Prices: Academic Theories Meet the Real World” in Mankiw, N. G. ed. Monetary Policy, NBER Studies in Business Cycles vol. 29, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 150-154.

  8. Blinder, A. (1994), “On Sticky Prices: Academic Theories Meet the Real World”, in Mankiw, N. G. ed. Monetary Policy, NBER Studies in Business Cycles vol. 29, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press.

  9. Campbell, C. M. and K. S. Kamlani (1997), “The Reasons for Wage Rigidity: Evidence from Survey of Firms”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, 759-789.

  10. Chevalier, J. A. and D. S. Scharfstein (1996), “Capital-Market Imperfections and Countercyclical Markups: Theory and Evidence”, American Economic Review 86, 703-725.

  11. Dias, M., A. Dias D. and P. D. Neves (2004), “Stylised features of price setting behaviour in Portugal: 1992-2001”, European Central Bank working paper N◦332, April.

  12. Domowitz, I, R. G. Hubbard, and B. C. Petersen (1986), “Business Cycles and the Relationship between Concentration and Price-Cost Margins”, Rand Journal of Economics 17, 1-17.

  13. Eichenbaum, M. and Fisher, J. (2004), “Evaluating the Calvo model of sticky prices”, NBER Working Paper, No. 10617, July.

  14. Fabiani, S., A. Gattulli and R. Sabbatini (2003), “Price Stickiness in Italy”, mimeo, Bank of Italy.

  15. Fabiani, S., A. Gattulli and R. Sabbatini (2003), “The Pricing Behavior of Italian Firms: New Survey Evidence on Price Stickiness ”, European Central Bank Working Paper.

  16. Knelow, P. and Kryvtsov, O. (2004), “State-Dependent or Time-Dependent Pricing: Does it Matter for Recent U.S. Inflation”, Mimeo.

  17. Machin S. and J. Van Reenen (1993)), “Profit margins and the Business Cycle: Evidence from UK manufacturing firms”, The Journal of Industrial Economics 41, 29-50.

  18. Mankiw, G. and Reis, R. (2002), “Sticky information versus sticky prices: a proposal to replace the New Keynesian Phillips curve”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, November, 1295-1327.

  19. Marchetti, D. J. and F. Nucci (2004), “Pricing Behavior and the Comovement of Productivity and Labor: Evidence from Firm-Level Data”, Bank of Italy Working Paper, No. 524,.

  20. Rotemberg, J. (1982), “Sticky Prices in the United States”, Journal of Political Economy 90, 1187-1211.

  21. Rotemberg, J. and M. Woodford (1991), “Markups and the Business Cycle”, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 6, 63-129.

  22. Rotemberg, J. and Woodford, M. (1999), “The cyclical behavior of prices and costs,” Handbook of Macroeconomics, 1051-1135.

  23. Sheshinski, E. and Weiss, Y., (1977), “Inflation and cost of price adjustment”, Review of Economic Studies 44(2), 287-303.

  24. Small I. and T. Yates (1999), “What makes price sticky? Some survey evidence for the United Kingdom”, Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, August.

  25. Suvanto, A. and J. Jukkinen (2004), “Stable Price Level and Changing Prices”, Bank of Finland Discussion Papers No. 28.

  26. Taylor, J. B. (1999), “Staggered price and wage setting in macroeconomics”, Handbook of Macroeconomics, 1009-1050.

  27. Taylor, J. B., (1980), “Aggregate Dynamics and Staggered Contracts”, Journal of Political Economy 88(1), 1-23.

  28. Warner, E. J. and Barsky, R. B. (1995), “The timing and magnitude of retail store markdowns: evidence from weekends and holidays”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 110(2), may, 321-352.

  29. Wolman, A. (1999), “Sticky prices, marginal cost, and the behavior of inflation”, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly 85/4, Fall, 29-48.

  30. Zbaracki, M., J. Ritson M., Levy D., Dutta S. and M. Bergen (2004), "Managerial and Customer Costs of Price Adjustment: Direct Evidence from Industrial Markets”, Review of Economics and Statistics 86(2), May.

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