Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152735 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 301
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
By placing store-level price data into bivariate Structural VAR models of inflation and relative price asymmetry, this study evaluates the quantitative importance of idiosyncratic pricing shocks in short-run aggregate price change dynamics. Robustly to alternative definitions of the relative price, identification schemes dictated by two-sided (S,s) pricing theory and measures of asymmetry in the relative price distribution, idiosyncratic shocks explain about 25 to 30 percent of the forecast error variance in inflation at the 12-month horizon. While the contemporaneous correlation between inflation and relative price asymmetry is positive, idiosyncratic shocks lead to a substantial build-up in inflation only after two to five months following the initial disturbance.
Subjects: 
inflation
Relative Price
Pricing
Structural VAR
JEL: 
E31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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