Comparing NAICS-based Producer Price Index industry net output data and International Price Program import data

Assessing Nonresponse Bias in the International Price Program's Import and Export Price Index Surveys

Abstract The IPP’s Import and Export Price Index Surveys provide estimates of the change in prices of goods and services purchased by U.S. residents from foreign merchants or sold to foreign buyers by U.S. residents. In order to meet new Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards and guidelines for statistical surveys, research was conducted using a three-phase approach to assess the effec...

OUTPUT PRICE AND MARKlTP DISPERSION IN MICRO DATA: THE ROLES OF PRODUCER HETEROGENEITY AND NOISE

Mark J. Roberts and Dylan Supina Industrial Orgaruzation, Volume 9, pages 1-36. ~~pyright © 2000 by Elsevier Science Inc. ~u rights of reproduction in any form reserved. ISBN: 0-7623-0687-4 This chapter provides empirical evidence on the extent of producer heterogeneity in the output market by analyzing output price and price­ marginal cost markups at the plant level for thirteen homogeneous ma...

Understanding International Price Differences Using Barcode Data

The empirical literature in international finance has produced three key results about international price deviations: borders give rise to flagrant violations of the law of one price, distance matters enormously for understanding these deviations, and convergence rates back to purchasing power parity are inconsistent with the evidence of micro studies on nominal price stickiness. The data unde...

OUTPUT AND PRICE STABILITY An International Comparison

The paper examines the behavior of output and prices for 10 ditTerent countries within the context of a rational expectations model with wage contracts. The model predicts that there is a policy tradeoff between output stability and price stability, and the estimated correlations and dynamic interactions are generally consistent with the model. For each of the countries the model is fit to the ...

Producer price highlights, 1998