Microeconomic evidence on price-setting

Handbook of Monetary Economics

Volumn 3, Issue C, 2010, Pages 231-284

  Klenow, Peter J ^a   Malin, Benjamin A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Contract Multiplier; Micro Price Data; Nominal Stickiness; State Dependent Pricing; Time Dependent Pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650232707     PISSN: 15734498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53238-1.00006-5     Document Type: Book

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