Inflation is painful, for firms, customers, employees, and society. But careful study of periods of hyperinflation …

the small.” Furthermore, it turns out that inflation offers only a partial explanation for the finding. Indeed …, substantial proportion of the asymmetry remains unexplained, even after accounting for the inflation. For example, the asymmetry … holds also after excluding periods of inflation from the data, and even for products whose price had not increased. The …