Measuring price selection in microdata: It's not there

Autor: Karadi, Peter, Schoenle, Raphael, Wursten, Jesse
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Popis: We use microdata to estimate the strength of price selection - a key metric for the effect of monetary policy on the real economy. We propose a product-level proxy for mispricing and assess whether products with larger mispricing respond with a higher probability to identified monetary and credit shocks. We find that they do not, suggesting selection is absent. Instead, we detect state-dependent adjustment on the gross extensive margin. Our results are broadly consistent with second-generation state-dependent pricing models and sizable effects of monetary policy on the real economy.
Databáze: OpenAIRE