This paper analyzes the behavior of prices and finished-goods inventories in a model of monopolistic competition, where the motivation for holding inventories is the prospect of lost sales. An eventual goal of the present investigation is the development of an empirical framework, based on a...

This paper explores the relationship between exchange rate pass-through and market share for monopolistically competitive exporters. Under fairly general assumptions we show that pass-through should be high for exporters based in a country with a very large share of total destination market...

We study optimal nominal demand policy in an economy with monopolistic competition and flexible prices when firms have imperfect common knowledge about the shocks hitting the economy. Information imperfections emerge endogenously because firms are assumed to have finite (Shannon) capacity to...