Pricing Behaviour and Menu Costs in Multi-product Firms

Autor: Wilko Letterie, Øivind A. Nilsen
Přispěvatelé: Organisation,Strategy & Entrepreneurship, RS: GSBE Theme Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, RS: GSBE Theme Conflict & Cooperation, RS: GSBE Theme Data-Driven Decision-Making, RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Economica, 89(355), 746-769. Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN: 0013-0427
Popis: This paper investigates the micro-foundations of pricing behaviour using monthly producer prices for Norwegian multi-product firms. We find both infrequent and many small price changes together with a high degree of within-firm synchronization. This points at fixed menu costs featuring scope economies, at additional linear and convex price adjustment costs, and at the presence of firm-specific shocks. The structural estimates and a simulation support the view that in order to understand pricing behaviour and the effectiveness of monetary policy, the analysis of multi-product firms and a richer price adjustment technology in the intermediate goods sector is valuable.
Databáze: OpenAIRE