Rationally inattentive seller: sales and discrete pricing

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Rationally inattentive seller: sales and discrete pricing

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper presents a model of a rationally inattentive seller responding to shocks to unit input cost. The model generates price series simultaneously exhibiting all three of the following features that can be found in the data. 1) Prices change frequently. 2) Responses of prices to aggregate variables are delayed. 3) Prices move back and forth between a few rigid values. Discrete pricing arises even if the unit input cost varies in a continuous range. Results of the model also agree with the evidencethat reductions in price, e.g. sales, are usually short-lasting and that the highest price in a sample tends to be the most quoted price. Discrete and asymmetric pricing is a seller's optimal response to his limited information capacity. Moreover, the model provides rationale for faster responses to aggregate shocks in industries with more volatile idiosyncratic shocks as well as for a steeper Philip's curve in less stable aggregate conditions.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Rationally inattentive seller: sales and discrete pricing

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper presents a model of a rationally inattentive seller responding to shocks to unit input cost. The model generates price series simultaneously exhibiting all three of the following features that can be found in the data. 1) Prices change frequently. 2) Responses of prices to aggregate variables are delayed. 3) Prices move back and forth between a few rigid values. Discrete pricing arises even if the unit input cost varies in a continuous range. Results of the model also agree with the evidencethat reductions in price, e.g. sales, are usually short-lasting and that the highest price in a sample tends to be the most quoted price. Discrete and asymmetric pricing is a seller's optimal response to his limited information capacity. Moreover, the model provides rationale for faster responses to aggregate shocks in industries with more volatile idiosyncratic shocks as well as for a steeper Philip's curve in less stable aggregate conditions.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AH - Ekonomie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LC542" target="_blank" >LC542: Centrum pro pokročilá politicko-ekonomická studia</a><br>

Návaznosti

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Rok uplatnění

2010

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

CERGE-EI Working Paper Series

ISSN

1211-3298

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

20

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

58

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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