Pricing Decisions in the Euro Area

Silvia Fabiani is a senior economist at the Research Department of Banca d'Italia. Her recent research involves monitoring and forecasting the short-term developments of inflation in Italy and the euro area, styding long-term price dynamics and its determinants, and analyzing structural issues concerning price setting across countries and sectors. Claire Loupias was a senior economist at teh Research Department of Banque de France while writing this book. She is now Assistant Professor at EPEE, Universite d'Evry (France). Her recent research involves the analysis of price setting. She has worked in various fields such as the monetary transmission mechanism and population aging. Fernando Martins is a senior economist at the Research Department of the Banco de Portugal. The implementation of monetary policy under uncertainty and the analysis of price stickiness based on survey data are his most recent topics of research. He is also Professor of Statistics and Data Analysis at the Universidade Lusiada of Lisbon. Roberto Sabbatini is a senior economist at the Research Department of Banca d'Italia. His recent research involves the short-term analysis of the Italian economy and that of the euro area, including forecasting, the analysis of the inflationary process and its determinants, and the impact of the euro cash changeover on consumer prices in Italy as well as in the euro area.

Ignazio Angeloni: Foreword
Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Firms' Pricing Behavior in the Euro Area: An Overview
1: Stephen G. Cecchetti, Fernando Martins, Roberto Sabbatini, & Harald Stahl: The Use of Survey Data to Investigate Price Setting: Theory and the Research Design for the Euro Area
2: Silvia Fabiani, Claire Loupias, Martine Druant, Ignacio Hernando, Claudia Kwapil, Bettina Landau, Fernando Martins, Thomas Mathä, Roberto Sabbatini, Harald Stahl, & Ad Stokman: Summary of Results for the Euro Area
Part II: Country-Specific Findings
3: Claudia Kwapil, Josef Baumgartner, & Johann Scharler: Price Reactions to Demand and Cost Shocks: Survey Evidence from Austrian Firms
4: Luc Aucremanne & Martine Druant: Why Are Prices Sticky? Evidence from an Ad Hoc Survey in Belgium
5: Claire Loupias & Roland Ricart: Asymmetries in Price Setting: Some Evidence from French Survey Data
6: Price Setting in German Manufacturing: Evidence from New Survey Data
7: Silvia Fabiani, Angela Gattulli, & Roberto Sabbatini: The Pricing Behavior of Italian Firms: New Survey Evidence on Price Stickiness
8: Patrick Lünnemann & Thomas Mathä: A Survey of Price-Setting Practices of Luxembourg Firms
9: Marco Hoeberichts & Ad Stockman: The Pricing Behavior of Dutch Firms: Survey Evidence on Price Stickiness
10: Fernando Martins: How Portuguese Firms Set Their Prices: Evidence from Survey Data
11: Luis J. Álvarez & Ignacio Hernando: The Pricing Behavior of Spanish Firms
Part III: Comparative Analysis
12: Patrick Lunnemann & Thomas Matha: A Comparison Based on International Survey Evidence
13: Luis J. Álvarez & Ignacio Hernando: Competition and Price Adjustment in the Euro Area
14: Roberto Santini, Luis J. Álvarez, Emmanuel Dhyne, Marco Hoeberichts, Herv´e Le Bihan, Patrick Lünnemann, Fernando Martins, Fabio Rumler, Harald Stahl, Philop Vermeulen, Giovanni Veronese, & Jouko Vilmunen: What Quantitative Micro Data Reveal about Price Setting Behavior
Part IV: Concluding Remarks and Implications
15: Vítor Gaspar, Andrew Levin, Fernando Martins, & Frank Smets: Policy Lessons and Directions for Ongoing Research
Appendix: The National Questionnaires
Index