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Title Asking about prices : a new approach to understanding price stickiness / Alan S. Blinder ... [and others]
Published New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1998]
©1998

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Description xiv, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. I. On Learning by Asking. Ch. 1. Why Study Price Stickiness? Why This Way? Ch. 2. Antecedents. Ch. 3. Research Design -- Pt. II. The Basic Findings. Ch. 4. Wouldn't It Be Nice to Know...? The Factual Basis for Theories of Price Stickiness. Ch. 5. Basic Results on the Twelve Theories -- Pt. III. Detailed Findings of Each Theory. Ch. 6. Nominal Contracting. Ch. 7. Implicit Contracts. Ch. 8. Judging Quality by Price. Ch. 9. Psychological Pricing Points. Ch. 10. Procyclical Elasticity of Demand. Ch. 11. Cost-Based Pricing: Lags from the Chain of Production. Ch. 12. Constant Marginal Cost. Ch. 13. Costs of Adjusting Prices. Ch. 14. Hierarchy. Ch. 15. Coordination Failure. Ch. 16. Inventories. Ch. 17. Nonprice Competition -- Pt. IV. Wrapping Up. Ch. 18. What Have We Learned? -- App. A. Manufacturing Interview
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-369] and index
Subject Business cycles -- Mathematical models.
Prices -- Mathematical models.
Author Blinder, Alan S.
LC no. 97026536
ISBN 0871541211