Paper uncovers Japanese price-setting trends

A paper by the Bank of Japan has established four facts on price setting based on data in the retail price survey from 1989

The four facts are:

- the frequency of price changes for goods is high, while that for services is low;

- many items have a downward sloping hazard function, while some have the flexible-type or the Taylor-type hazard function;

- in most categories, a decline in the frequency of price changes has contributed to a drop in the inflation rate since the 1990s while the size of

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