Gerlach, Stefan; Kugler, Peter - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2007
We test the menu cost model of Ball and Mankiw (1994, 1995), which impliesthat the impact of price dispersion on … inflation should differ between inflation anddeflation episodes, using data for Japan and Hong Kong. We use a random … both the inflation and deflation periods, and the parameteron the second moment changes sign in the deflation period, as …