Microfoundations of Macroeconomic Price Adjustment: Survey Evidence from Swedish Firms
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1538-4616
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2005.0018