Relative price variability: Evidence from supply and demand events

Inflation And Relative Price Dispersion: Evidence For Iran

Price Policies, Over-Supply and Demand Bubbles

In the current conditions of over-supply, firms are paying high attention to pricing decisions in order to defend their competitive positioning. Modern pricing strategies are able to take into account changed market conditions or, in other words, demand characterised by strong volatility and non loyal behaviour flanking known loyalty mechanisms. Moreover, suppliers are also looking for innovati...

Destabilizing Impacts of Price and Quantity Adjustments to Relative Supply and Demand

Inflation Forecasting, Relative Price Variability and Skewness

This paper presents out-of-sample inflation forecasting results based on relative price variability and skewness. It is demonstrated that forecasts on long horizons of 1.5-2 years are significantly improved if the forecast equation is augmented with skewness. JEL: E17, E31, C43

Further evidence on the variability of inflation and relative price variability

Using a sample of monthly observations of both a 12-category group and a 203-category group of personal consumption expenditures, we furnish evidence that relative price variability is positively related to both the inflation rate and inflation variability. The relation is robust to oil-price shocks.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.