Microfoundations of macroeconomic price adjustment: Survey evidence from Swedish firms

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-338

  Apel, Mikael ^a   Friberg, Richard ^b   Hallsten, Kerstin ^a  

^a SVERIGES RIKSBANK   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Nominal rigidity; Price rigidity; Price setting; Real rigidity; State dependent pricing; Time dependent pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144398207     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2005.0018     Document Type: Article

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