Staggering and Synchronization in Price-Setting: Evidence from Multiproduct Firms

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1175-1196

  Lach, Saul ^a,b   Tsiddon, Daniel ^b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NBER ^*

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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