Essays on retail price movements

The central questions asked in this thesis are (i) whether retail prices are sticky or not, and (ii) what economic factors are crucial for explaining retail price movements. In the second chapter, I first examine the predictions of two representative economic models to explain price movements - a t...

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Main Author: Kano, Kazuko
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31081