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Price and Investment Dynamics: An Empirical Analysis of Plant Level Data

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Lundin, Magnus (Department of Economics)
Gottfries, Nils () (Department of Economics)
Lindström, Tomas (Konjunkturinstitutet)

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Abstract

Price and investment equations are estimated using a unique data set for Swedish manufacturing plants. The empirical specification is based on a theoretical model of a financially constrained firm selling its output in a customer market. We find that, as predicted by our theoretical model, prices respond strongly to cost shocks but are not much affected by variations in demand and high predetermined investment is associated with a higher price.

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Paper provided by Uppsala University, Department of Economics in its series Working Paper Series with number 2004:7.

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Length: 41 pages
Date of creation: 18 Jun 2004
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Publication status: Forthcoming in Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2008.
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Keywords: Cyclical price adjustment; price rigidity; price equation; countercyclical markup;

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D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets

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