• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: The price-setting behavior of Austrian firms: some survey evidence
  • Contributor: Kwapil, Claudia [Author]; Baumgartner, Josef [Author]; Scharler, Johann [Author]
  • imprint: Frankfurt a. M.: European Central Bank (ECB), 2005
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Preismanagement ; Österreich ; price rigidity ; price-setting behavior ; C25 ; E30 ; Befragung
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  • Description: This paper explores the price-setting behavior of Austrian firms based on survey evidence. Our main result is that customer relationships are a major source of price stickiness in the Austrian economy. We also find that the majority of firms in our sample follows a timedependent pricing strategy. However, a substantial fraction of firms deviates from time-dependent pricing in the case of large shocks and switches to a state-dependent pricing strategy. In addition, we present evidence suggesting that the price response to various shocks is subject to asymmetries.
  • Access State: Open Access