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The frequency and costs of individual price adjustment

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
237 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0143-6570

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โœฆ Synopsis

Abstract

How often do the nominal prices of individual goods change? What is the nature of costs of price adjustment? How big are these costs? Answering these questions may be important for constructing macroeconomic models that are useful for monetary policy analysis. The empirical literature reveals that many prices do change infrequently, in part because of physical costs of price adjustment. However, infrequent price adjustment also seems to be related to costs of decision making, to relationships between buyers and sellers, and to strategic behavior among sellers, all in ways that are not yet well understood. Copyright ยฉ 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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