Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129710 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 290
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
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.
Subjects: 
Price-setting
Business Cycles
Micro Data
JEL: 
D4
E3
L16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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