Sticky information versus sticky prices: A proposal to replace the new Keynesian Phillips curve

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1295-1328

  Mankiw, N Gregory ^a   Reis, Ricardo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036867964     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003355302320935034     Document Type: Article

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