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Using micro CPI data, I show that much of inflation for durable goods since 1988 reflects, not increases in price for a given set of products, but rather shifts to a newer set of product models that display higher prices. I examine how these price differences should be divided between quality...
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I test the importance of wage rigidities from long-term contracts by observing how employment behaves when firms and workers recontract. If rigidities are important then we should observe employment adjusting after recontracting to undo movements in employment during the past contract that were...
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I examine price markups in monopolisticly-competitive markets that experience fluctuations in demand because the economy experiences cyclical fluctuations in productivity. Markups depend positively on the average income of purchasers in the market. For a nondurable good average income of...
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2011.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2008.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2009.
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