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After a four-decade hiatus, inflation has come roaring back to impact all aspects of the economy – from daily consumer purchase behavior to corporate margins. Startup entrepreneurs always face an array of challenges, but high inflation has not been among them since the early 1980s. Given the...
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We develop and estimate a search model in which identical consumers trade with price-setting firms that differ in productivity. In the model, equilibrium distributions of both prices and markups are non-degenerate and continuous with a firm's price decreasing as its productivity increases....
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We study the determination of market power at the firm and industry levels when heterogeneous firms compete for sales to ex ante homogeneous buyers in a market with both directed and random search and free entry of firms that differ in productivity. Search and the distribution of productivity...
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For governments who want to improve their economies via fiscal, monetary, trade or exchange rate policies, the tradeoff between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate is extremely important. This tradeoff has become known as the Phillips curve. Among economists there is no consensus on how...
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