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Cross-sectional evidence on state-dependent versus time-dependent price setting

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  • Steffen Ahrens

    (Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Matthias Hartmann

    (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

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We empirically analyze aggregate price setting by means of a nonparametric representation of the structural New Keynesian Phillips curve derived from Calvo (1983) pricing for a large cross-section of 14 industrialized economies. State-dependence of the Calvo parameter is tested in a functional-coefficient regression framework. We reject state-invariant pricing. Moreover, problems reported in the extant literature of insignificant and implausible estimates of the Phillips-curve relation are mitigated in the state-dependent specification.

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  • Steffen Ahrens & Matthias Hartmann, 2015. "Cross-sectional evidence on state-dependent versus time-dependent price setting," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 35(4), pages 2701-2709.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-15-00037
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    State-dependent versus time-dependent pricing; Phillips curve; Functional coefficients; Conditional heteroscedasticity.;
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    • C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

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