Asymmetric price adjustment in a Menu-cost model

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 295-309

  Madsen, Jakob B ^a   Yang, Bill Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MINOT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric price adjustment; Manufacturing prices; Menu costs; Panel data; Retail prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042940953     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01237197     Document Type: Article

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