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The analysis in Ball and Romer [1991] suggests that models with fixed costs of changing price may be rife with multiple equilibria; in their static model price adjustment is always characterized by strategic complementarity, a necessary condition for multiplicity. We extend Ball and Romer's...
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(real or deficit). Under monetary and fiscal policy coordination, the real spending multiplier is 3.4 and the deficit … spending multiplier is 3.8. However, when there is no policy coordination, that is, when the central bank is "goal independent …," the real spending multiplier is unchanged but the deficit spending multiplier is zero. Coordination failure may explain …
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We assess the role of cognitive convenience in the popularity and rigidity of 0-ending prices in convenience settings. Studies show that 0-ending prices are common at convenience stores because of the transaction convenience that 0-ending prices offer. Using a large store-level retail CPI data,...
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