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
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13568
- Klassifikation
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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
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producer price setting
supply
demand
COVID-19
fiscal policy
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Balleer, Almut
Link, Sebastian
Menkhoff, Manuel
Zorn, Peter
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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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