Inflation and costly price adjustment: A study of Canadian newspaper prices

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 615-633

  Fisher, Timothy C G ^a   Konieczny, Jerzy D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nominal rigidities; Price adjustment costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744732044     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2006.0042     Document Type: Article

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