Micro Evidence on the Adjustment of Sticky-Price Goods: It's how Often, Not how Much
- 1 November 2005
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We use a unique panel data set to analyze price setting in restaurants in Switzerland 1977-1993, for items known to have sticky prices. The macroeconomic environment during this time period allows us to examine how firms adjust prices at low (0%) and fairly high (7%) inflation. Our results indicate that firms strongly react to inflation in the timing of their price adjustment: hazard of price changes is increasing with time and becomes steeper at higher inflation rates. However, we find little evidence that the amount by which they change the price responds to the inflation rate.Keywords
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