Estimating the frequency of price re-optimization in Calvo-style models

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2032-2047

  Eichenbaum, Martin ^a,b   Fisher, Jonas D M ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Monetary transmission mechanism; Nominal rigidities

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548862592     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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