%0 Documento de trabajo (Working Paper) %A Echeverry-Garzón, Juan Carlos %I Banco de la República %D 1998 %G Español (Spanish) %T Price setting in the argentine and colombian manufacturing industry %U http://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/5109 %X A price-setting mechanism based on a markup over variable costs is studied for the quite different inflationary experiences of Argentina and Colombia. The paper pursues a twofold strategy: first, it test the null hypothesis of a constant markup against th