Inflation, price dispersion, and market structure

European Economic Review

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1187-1208

  Caglayan, Mustafa ^a   Filiztekin, Alpay ^b   Rauh, Michael T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflation; Market structure; Menu cost models; Micro panel data; Price dispersion; Search; Sticky prices

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; INFLATION; MARKET SYSTEM; PANEL DATA; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

EID: 53149086250     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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