Linking individual and aggregate price changes

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2199-2224

  Rátfai, Attila ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

(S,s) pricing; Inflation; Microeconomic price data; Simulated maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845781645     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2007.0007     Document Type: Review

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