Price setting in forward-looking customer markets

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 220-233

  Nakamura, Emi ^a,b,c   Steinsson, Jón ^a,b,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80052660455     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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