Price Stickiness: Empirical Evidence of the Menu Cost Channel

A leading explanation in the economic literature is that monetary policy has real effects on the economy because firms incur a cost when changing prices. Using a unique database of cost and retail price changes, we find that variation in menu costs results in up to 13.3% fewer price increases. We co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anderson, Eric, Jaimovich, Nir, Simester, Duncan
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100494
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2758-0116