Arbeitspapier

Demand or Supply? Price Adjustment during the COVID-19 Pandemic

We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported negative impact of Covid-19 on current business is associated with a rise in the probability to decrease prices up to eleven percentage points. These results imply a role for aggregate demand stabilization policy to buffer the economic consequences of Covid-19 while containing the pandemic.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13568

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Thema
producer price setting
supply
demand
COVID-19
fiscal policy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Balleer, Almut
Link, Sebastian
Menkhoff, Manuel
Zorn, Peter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Balleer, Almut
  • Link, Sebastian
  • Menkhoff, Manuel
  • Zorn, Peter
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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