This paper quantifies the effects of drug monopolies and low per-capita income on pharmaceutical prices in developing …

in option prices. Consumption and dividends remain smooth, and the model is consistent with salient features of …

Conventional wisdom suggests that producer prices are more rigid than consumer prices and therefore play less of a role … for the producer price index, we find that producer prices for finished goods and services in fact exhibit roughly the … same rigidity as consumer prices that include sales and substantially less rigidity than consumer prices that exclude them …

determining the response of aggregate variables to shocks at different frequencies: Sectors where prices are stickier are … allowing for this type of heterogeneity is critically important to understanding the joint dynamics of output and prices, and …

restricted by federal and state laws from expanding across state lines. We examine whether bank merger prices were higher or … well as those that may provide some diversification benefits, are offered higher prices.> We find that changes in the … regulatory environment had a significant impact on bank merger activities in general, and bank merger prices in particular. For …

across the states for more timely evidence of a change in this relationship. We find some evidence that the elasticity of …

last price change. This reflects differences over time in the flexibility of prices charged by a single store for a given … substantially differs from the average of other stores. However, extreme prices typically reflect the selling store's recent nominal … adjustments rather than changes in other stores' prices. …