Setting the right prices for the wrong reasons

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 56, Issue SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Hellwig, Christian ^a   Venkateswaran, Venky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Incomplete information; Price setting; Real effects of nominal shocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149102886     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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