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search economy in which there are no costs or temporal restrictions on sellers' ability to change prices. The economy … endogenous changes in the average mark-up driven by movements in consumers' search intensity. The average mark-up falls as …
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simultaneous search or any heterogeneity in preferences, production costs, or search technologies. A distribution of money holdings …
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This paper studies the effect of inflation on welfare in a monetary economy with price dispersion and consumer search …. When facing greater price dispersion with higher inflation, consumers search harder for lower prices, and increased search …. Both mechanisms are affected by the consumer's monetary balance. I develop a general equilibrium model with search …
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search economy in which there are no costs or temporal restrictions on sellers' ability to change prices. The economy … endogenous changes in the average mark-up driven by movements in consumers' search intensity. The average mark-up falls as …
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We introduce heterogeneous preferences into a tractable model of monetary search to generate price dispersion, and then … examine the effects of money growth on price dispersion and welfare. With buyers’ search intensity fixed, we find that money … goods. When buyers’ search intensity is endogenous, multiple equilibria are possible. In the equilibrium with the highest …
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In macroeconomic models, the level of price dispersion - which is typically approximated through its relationship with inflation - is a central determinant of welfare, the cost of business cycles, the optimal rate of inflation, and the tradeoff between inflation and output stability. While the...
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The effect on the household consumption price index from possible sources of error in capturing digital products depends on the weight of the affected products. To calculate upper bounds for this effect, we apply weights based on the average structure of household consumption in OECD countries...
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The authors use data from the Gallup World Poll to analyze what determines individual assessments of past, present, and future personal and country well-being. These measures allow the analysis of two dimensions of happiness data not previously examined in the literature: the better-than-average...
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This paper disentangles the distributional and welfare impact of price changes since the start of the cost of living crisis for a subset of European countries with different welfare regimes and price changes. It decomposes the impact of inflation and measures welfare changes using the...
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