Blanco, Andres; Boar, Corina; Jones, Callum; Midrigan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Canonical menu cost models, when parameterized to match the micro-price data, cannot reproduce the extent to which the … fraction of price changes increases with inflation. They also predict implausibly large menu costs and misallocation in the … presence of strategic complementarities. We resolve these shortcomings by extending the multi-product menu cost model along two …