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The literature on costs of price adjustment has long argued that changing prices is a complex and costly process. In … this view, that besides observing costs of price adjustment, we should also expect to see firm-level investments in capital … the potential of fundamentally altering the way we think about pricing and price adjustment in many areas of economics. It …
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The literature on costs of price adjustment has long argued that changing prices is a complex and costly process. In … this view, that besides observing costs of price adjustment, we should also expect to see firm-level investments in capital … the potential of fundamentally altering the way we think about pricing and price adjustment in many areas of economics. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526362
Analyzing a large weekly retail transaction price dataset, we uncover a surprising regularity'small price increases occur more frequently than small price decreases for price changes of up to about 10 cents, while there is no such asymmetry for larger price changes. The asymmetry holds for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260591
, and after allowing for various lengths of lagged price adjustment. The findings are insensitive also to the measure of …. This range of consumer inattention, we argue, gives the retailers incentive for asymmetric price adjustment "in the small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204746
offer a new theory of asymmetric price adjustment, which can explain our findings. The theory, which is an extension of the … inattention, we argue, gives the retailers incentive for asymmetric price adjustment "in the small." These incentives, however …
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, and after allowing for various lengths of lagged price adjustment. The findings are insensitive also to the measure of …. This range of consumer inattention, we argue, gives the retailers incentive for asymmetric price adjustment “in the small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561371
, and after allowing for various lengths of lagged price adjustment. The findings are insensitive also to the measure of …. This range of consumer inattention, we argue, gives the retailers incentive for asymmetric price adjustment "in the small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478914
Analyzing a large weekly retail transaction price dataset, we uncover a surprising regularity— small price increases occur more frequently than small price decreases for price changes of up to about 10 cents, while there is no such asymmetry for larger price changes. The asymmetry holds for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700618
This paper compares sticky-price and sticky-information model under a more general staggering price-setting scheme. Different to Mankiw and Reis (2002), who show that, under the Calvo staggering assumption, two models generate very different inflation dynamics, I extend the constant-hazard...
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the consistency of these correlations with three models of price adjustment: the partial adjustment model, a staggered … the partial adjustment model requires the highest ratio. These results reveal that the recent burst of researchers using … the partial adjustment model will find a larger role for supply shocks than alternative models of price rigidity …
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