Estimates of Cost-Price Passthrough from Business Survey Data

Wändi Bruine de Bruin (), Keshav Dogra, Sebastian Heise, Edward Knotek, Brent Meyer, Robert Rich, Raphael Schoenle, Giorgio Topa and Wilbert van der Klaauw

No 2023-5, FRB Atlanta Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Abstract: We examine businesses' price-setting practices via open-ended interviews and in a quantitative survey module with business contacts from the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Cleveland, and New York in December 2022 and January 2023. Businesses indicated that their prices were strongly influenced by demand, a desire to maintain steady profit margins, and wages and labor costs. Survey respondents expected reduced growth in costs and prices of about 5 percent on average over the next year. Backward-looking, forward-looking, and hypothetical scenarios reveal average cost-price passthrough of around 60 percent, with meaningful heterogeneity across firms.

Keywords: prices; business survey; hypothetical questions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D4 E3 L2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2023-06-02
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Published in 2023

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DOI: 10.29338/wp2023-05

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