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The macroeconomics of price adjustments under information frictions and menu costs
(2013-06-18)
This thesis studies price-setting models and analyzes their macroeconomic im- plications. In the rst two chapters I study general models in which rms pricing decisions are a¤ected by menu costs and information costs. In ...
Essays on price dynamics
(2011-07-26)
Esta tese tem como objetivo principal aproximar a evidencia empirica existente sobre os agregados macroeconomicos com as novas evidencias empiricas baseadas nos micro dados de precos ao consumidor, tendo como base os modelos ...
Regras de preços e efeitos de política monetária e fiscal
(2011-04-26)
Esta tese é composta por três ensaios, dois deles analisam regras de preços e o outro faz uma análise de política fiscal. Cada ensaio forma um capítulo da tese. No primeiro capítulo, acrescentamos heterogeneidade a um ...
Micro evidence on brazilian price stickiness and its consequences for sectoral real exchange rate and inflation persistence
(2010-11-08)
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the price-setting behavior in Brazil and, in particular, the effects on inflation and good-level real exchange rate persistence. This thesis is composed by three Chapters. In ...
Essays on international prices and the subjacent market structure
(2010-02-05)
The thesis uses international price data to identify parameters of trade models with imperfect competition, therefore allowing inference on exchange rate behavior, gains from trade and variety of domestic goods. First, we ...
Price setting and macroeconomic variables: evidence from Brazilian CPI
(2009-08-14)
This thesis investigates price-setting in a variable macroeconomic environment using a unique data set from the Brazilian CPI index of Fundação Getulio Vargas. The primary data consist of a panel of individual prices for ...