Asking about Prices : A New Approach to Understanding Price Stickiness

Preface xi PART I ON LEARNING BY ASKING 1(80) Chapter 1 Why Study Price Stickiness? Why This Way? 3(13) Chapter 2 Antecedents 16(31) Chapter 3 Research Design 47(34) PART II THE BASIC FINDINGS 81(46) Chapter 4 Wouldn't It Be Nice to Know...? The Factual Basis for Theories of Price Stickiness 83(24) Chapter 5 Basic Results on the Twelve Theories 107(10) PART III DETAILED FINDINGS ON EACH THEORY 127(166) Chapter 6 Nominal Contracting 129(20) Chapter 7 Implicit Contracts 149(16) Chapter 8 Judging Quality by Price 165(10) Chapter 9 Psychological Pricing Points 175(11) Chapter 10 Procyclical Elasticity of Demand 186(11) Chapter 11 Cost-Based Pricing: Lags from the Chain of Production 197(14) Chapter 12 Constant Marginal Cost 211(15) Chapter 13 Costs of Adjusting Prices 226(27) Chapter 14 Hierarchy 253(7) Chapter 15 Coordination Failure 260(14) Chapter 16 Inventories 274(9) Chapter 17 Nonprice Competition 283(10) PART IV WRAPPING UP 293(22) Chapter 18 What Have We Learned? 295(20) Appendix A Manufacturing Interview 315(22) Appendix B List of Variable Names 337(2) Notes 339(22) Bibliography 361(10) Index 371