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goods from a major shopping platform, we shed new light on how prices are set in online markets, which have a number of … special properties such as low search costs, low costs of monitoring competitors' prices, and low costs of nominal price … adjustment. We document that although online prices are more flexible than offline prices, they continue to exhibit relatively …
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We show that standard menu cost models cannot simultaneously reproduce the dispersion in the size of micro-price changes and the extent to which the fraction of price changes increases with inflation in the U.S. time-series. Though the Golosov and Lucas (2007) model generates fluctuations in the...
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We study the propagation of monetary shocks in a sticky-price general-equilibrium economy where the firms' pricing strategy feature a complementarity with the decisions of other firms. In a dynamic equilibrium the firm's price-setting decisions depend on aggregates, which in turn depend on...
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, but not which, prices to adjust in any given period, our model admits exact aggregation and reduces to a one …
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We introduce a new data set on over 230,000 monthly prices for 10 goods in 50 Canadian cities over the 40 year period … retail prices--at mid-century than in the 1990s. We also consider the linkages between nominal rigidities and price …
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estimate that reductions in price dispersion raised welfare by 0.3 percent. E-commerce also lowered variety-adjusted prices on …
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absolute size of price changes increasing with inflation: price changes should become larger as prices drift further from their … implications for the optimal inflation rate need to be reassessed. We also find that (non-sale) prices have not become more …
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We evaluate how anticipation and adaptation shape the aggregate and local costs of climate change. We develop a dynamic spatial model of the U.S. economy and its 3,143 counties that features costly forward-looking migration and capital investment decisions. Recent methodological advances that...
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We leverage spatial variation in the severity of the Great Recession across the United States to examine its impact on mortality and to explore implications for the welfare consequences of recessions. We estimate that an increase in the unemployment rate of the magnitude of the Great Recession...
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Using text from 200 million pages of 13,000 US local newspapers and machine learning methods, we construct a 170-year-long measure of economic sentiment at the country and state levels, that expands existing measures in both the time series (by more than a century) and the cross-section. Our...
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