In dieser Arbeit werden die Preisbildung und Preisreaktionen im Naturkosthandel (NKH) anhand eines umfangreichen Scannerdatensatzes untersucht. Dabei werden Preiselastizitäten, Preisrigiditäten und Preissynchronisation sowie die Preistransmission in der Wertschöpfungskette (WSK) bei...

This paper jointly considers the impact of the minimum wage on both labor and product markets using detailed store-level scanner data. I provide empirical evidence that a 10% increase in the minimum wage raises grocery store prices by 0.6%-0.8%, and suggest that the minimum wage not only raises...

Can variants of the classic Calvo (1983) model of sticky prices account for the statistical behavior of post-war US inflation? We develop and test versions of the model for which the answer to this question is yes. We then investigate whether these models imply plausible degrees of inertia in...

Optimal monetary policy depends crucially on whether agents have exogenous, endogenous-inelastic, or endogenous-elastic attention. We show in this paper that, under elastic attention, optimal monetary policy may induce equilibria that are not possible under the other two settings: decision...