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Kaufmann, Daniel

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Kaufmann, Daniel
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daniel.kaufmann@unine.ch
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/1129
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0000-0003-3260-0660

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  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Asymmetries in Price-Setting Behavior: New Microeconometric Evidence from Switzerland
    (2012-12-18)
    Kaufmann, Daniel 
    ;
    Honoré, Bo
    ;
    Lein, Sarah
    In this paper, we follow the recent empirical literature that has specified reduced-form models for price setting that are closely tied to (S, s)-pricing rules. Our contribution to the literature is twofold. First, we propose an estimator that relaxes distributional assumptions on the unobserved heterogeneity. Second, we use the estimator to examine the prevalence of positive price changes in a low-inflation environment. Our model estimates suggest that, if inflation falls from 0.9% to zero, the share of positive price changes in all price changes falls from 63.6% to 56.2%.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    The timing of price changes and the role of heterogeneity
    (Zurich Swiss National Bank, 2009)
    Kaufmann, Daniel 
    While price-setting models usually suggest constant or increasing hazard functions for price changes, empirical studies often find decreasing hazards, possibly due to misspecified or neglected heterogeneity. This paper attempts to disentangle the downward bias into various sources: observed and unobserved heterogeneity which can be either constant or time-varying. Based on micro data from the Swiss CPI, the paper finds that in order to resolve the downward bias of the hazard function for price changes, we have to (i) control for time-varying heterogeneity in addition to cross-sectional factors and (ii) exclude temporary price changes such as sales prices from the data set. Among the time-varying factors affecting the probability of price changes, various proxies of firms' marginal costs seem to be key. The empirical findings presented in this paper are consistent with recent menu cost models which stress the role of time-varying heterogeneity and temporary price cuts for price setting.