Imperfectly credible disinflation under endogenous time-dependent pricing

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 799-831

  Bonomo, Marco ^a   Carvalho, Carlos ^b  

^a FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Credibility; Disinflation; Endogenous time dependent pricing; Optimal price setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955133207     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2010.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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