Zhu, Tingting. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 21-23). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review and Background --- p.2 / Chapter 2.1 --- The literature on price stickiness --- p.2 / Chapter 2.2 --- The literature on monetary policy --- p.3 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Model and Data --- p.4 / Chapter 3.1 --- The model --- p.4 / Chapter 3.2 --- Model estimation --- p.6 / Chapter 3.3 --- Data --- p.7 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Price Fluctuations in Disaggregated Data --- p.7 / Chapter 4.1 --- Sources of fluctuations and persistence in price series --- p.8 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- China inflation volatility --- p.8 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- China inflation persistence --- p.10 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- India inflation volatility --- p.10 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- India inflation persistence --- p.11 / Chapter 4.2 --- Effects of macroeconomic and sector-specific shocks on price --- p.12 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- China sectoral price response to various shocks --- p.12 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- India sectoral price response to various shocks --- p.13 / Chapter 4.3 --- Urban and rural price responses to various shocks --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks --- p.15 / Chapter 5.1 --- Effects of monetary shocks in China --- p.15 / Chapter 5.2 --- Effects of monetary shocks in India --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.18 / Bibliography --- p.21 / Table 1: China volatility and persistence of monthly inflation series --- p.24 / Table 2: China cross-sectional correlations of various statistics --- p.25 / Table 3: India volatility and persistence of monthly inflation series --- p.26 / Table 4: India cross-sectional correlations of various statistics --- p.27 / Table 5: Response of price series to a monetary policy shock in China --- p.28 / Table 6: Response of price series to a monetary policy shock in India --- p.29 / Figure 1: China sectoral price responses to shocks (Base Rate as the monetary instrument)…… --- p.30 / Figure 2: China sectoral price responses to shocks (M2 as the monetary instrument) --- p.31 / Figure 3: India sectoral price responses to shocks (Bank Rate as the monetary instrument) --- p.32 / Figure 4: India sectoral price responses to shocks (M3 as the monetary instrument) --- p.33 / Figure 5: China urban and rural CPI responses to various shocks --- p.34 / Figure 6: India urban and rural CPI responses to various shocks --- p.35 / Figure 7: China impulse responses to an identified monetary shock (Base Rate) --- p.36 / Figure 8: China impulse responses to an identified monetary shock (M2) --- p.37 / Figure 9: China sectoral price responses to monetary shocks with long-run restriction (Base Rate) --- p.38 / Figure 10: China sectoral price responses to monetary shocks with long-run restriction (M2) --- p.39 / Figure 11: India impulse responses to an identified monetary shock (Bank Rate) --- p.40 / Figure 12: India impulse responses to an identified monetary shock (M3) --- p.41 / Figure 13: India sectoral price responses to monetary shocks with long-run restriction (Bank Rate) --- p.42 / Figure 14: India sectoral price responses to monetary shocks with long-run restriction (M3) --- p.43 / Appendix --- p.44