What do thirteen million price records have to say about consumer price rigidity?

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-183

  Baudry, Laurent ^a   Le Bihan, Hervé ^a   Sevestre, Patrick ^a,b   Tarrieu, Sylvie ^a  

^a BANQUE DE FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

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EID: 34147118661     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2007.00473.x     Document Type: Article

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