Price Adjustment in Costa Rica: A First Assessment Using Micro-Data

 

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف: Vindas Quesada, Alberto José
التنسيق: artículo original
الحالة:Versión publicada
تاريخ النشر:2014
الوصف:This article explores the pricing adjustment process in Costa Rica, taking a deeper look into the micro-data that make up the Consumer Price Index for the period 2006-2013. The basic question asks if this process resembles time-dependent picing models, or if it resembles more a state-dependent process. This is done analysing a series of random effects regressions to explore the relations between inflation rate, frequency of pricing adjustments and their average magnitude. The main conclusions are that 1) there is considerable heterogeneity between product categories, 2) price decreases follow a very stable pattern that does not depend on the overall inflation rate, 3) the average size of the price increases is influenced by a very small magnitude by the inflation rate, 4) the proportion of prices increasing each month is strongly positively correlated with the inflation rate, and 5) state-dependent specifications fit better these facts.
البلد:Portal de Revistas UCR
المؤسسة:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
اللغة:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/6711
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reconomicas/article/view/6711
كلمة مفتاحية:INFLATION
MACROECONOMICS
ECONOMIC CYCLE
MONETARY POLICY
PRICE RIGIDITY
CPI
Inflación
Macroeconomía
Ciclo económico
Política monetaria
Rigidez de precios
IPC