The welfare loss from unstable inflation

Economics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-57

  Nisticò, Salvatore ^a  

^a LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Relative price dispersion; Rotemberg pricing; Symmetric equilibrium; Welfare criterion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249734328     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.12.009     Document Type: Article

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