This paper proposes a theory of price rigidity consistent with survey evidence that firms stabilize prices out of … fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First, customers care about the fairness of … rigid. Embedded in a simple macroeconomic model, our pricing theory produces nonneutral monetary policy, a short …

fairness and social justice are increasingly voiced by citizens and their governments around the world. Taking a novel "bottom …

prediction that globalization decreases the cost of capital, but the documented effects are lower than theory leads us to expect …This paper examines the impact of globalization on the cost of equity capital. We argue that the cost of equity capital … decreases because of globalization for two important reasons. First, the expected return that investors require to invest in …