International shocks and domestic prices: How large are strategic complementarities?
How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? In this paper, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firm price responses to changes in prices of their competitors. We develop a general framework and an empirical identification strategy to estimate the elasticities of a firm’s price response to both its own cost shocks and to the price changes of its competitors. Our approach takes advantage of a new micro-level dataset for the Belgian manufacturing sector, which contains detailed information on firm domestic prices, marginal costs, and competitor prices. The rare... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
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Brussels: National Bank of Belgium
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / F1 / F3 / F4 / Pass-through / markups / strategic complementarities / firm heterogeneity / Preismanagement / Preiselastizität / Preiswettbewerb / Wechselkurs / Grenzkosten / Schock / Internationaler Wettbewerb / Theorie / Schätzung / Industrie / Belgien |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28510584 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/144507 |