Sangiácomo, Máximo
Firm’s Price Expectations [recurso electrónico] : An Empirical Analysis using BCRAs’ Survey of Business Economic Perspectives / Máximo Sangiácomo, Pedro Elosegui
En: Ensayos Económicos [recurso electrónico]. -- no. 83 (mayo, 2024). -- Buenos Aires : Banco Central de la República Argentina, 2016

Incl. ref.
Incl. graf.
Modo de acceso: World Wide Web. PDF.
Descripción basada en la visualización del recurso el 30/7/2024
Disponible en: https://www.bcra.gob.ar/Institucional/DescargaPDF/DownloadPDF.aspx?Id=1244

The Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) implements a monthly Survey of Business Economic Perspectives to capture the business climate and economic perspectives. The survey includes both qualitative and quantitative questions on past and expected change in different economic variables of the main companies in Argentina. This unique proprietary data is used to approximate the price setting behavior of the firms in the domestic markets. We postulate an econometric model where the firms’ dynamic on their expected domestic prices are based on (i) firm’s past and expected information (prices, input costs and inventories) and (ii) macroeconomic variables (economic activity, foreign exchange rate, interest rate and inflation rate). The results indicate the importance of input costs (domestic and imported) and the macroeconomic variables (especially the exchange rate and the inflation rate) in the expected price dynamics of the analyzed companies and are in line with the literature analyzing price setting behavior under macroeconomic uncertainty. Foreign exchange rate pass-through, markups on input prices and forward-looking behavior in price setting
generate important challenges for the anti-inflationary monetary policy
ISSN: 18506046

1. FIJACION DE PRECIOS I. Elosegui, Pedro