Arbeitspapier

Price setting before and during the pandemic: Evidence from Swiss consumer prices

We provide new evidence on price rigidity at the product level based on microdata underlying the Swiss consumer price index from 2008 to 2020. We find that the frequency o f price changes has increased over the last decade, particularly among products where collection switched to online prices, reflecting t he r ise o f e -commerce. Furthermore, p rice changes tend to be synchronized within rather than across stores. Time variations in inflation can be attributed mainly to variations in the frequency of both price increases and price decreases. In the first year of the pandemic, the frequency of price adjustments changed little on average, while temporary sales responded countercyclically to the respective demand conditions across sectors.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: KOF Working Papers ; No. 506

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
Thema
Price rigidity
price-setting behavior
consumer prices
inflation
COVID-19 pandemic

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rudolf, Barbara
Seiler, Pascal
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
(wo)
Zurich
(wann)
2022

DOI
doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000581467
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Rudolf, Barbara
  • Seiler, Pascal
  • ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute

Entstanden

  • 2022

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