Contents
Preface
Part I. On Learning by Asking
Chapter 1. Why Study Price Stickiness? Why This Way?
Chapter 2. Antecendents
Chapter 3. Research Design
Part II. The Basic Findings
Chapter 4. Wouldn't It Be Nice to Know...?
Chapter 5. Basic Results on the Twelve Theories
Part III. Detailed Findings on Each Theory
Chapter 6. Nominal Contracting
Chapter 7. Implicit Contracts
Chapter 8. Judging Quality by Price
Chapter 9. Psychological Pricing Points
Chapter 10. Procyclical Elasticity of Demand
Chapter 11. Cost-Based Pricing: Lags from the Chain of Production
Chapter 12. Constant Marginal Cost
Chapter 13. Costs of Adjusting Prices
Chapter 14. Hierarchy
Chapter 15. Coordination Failure
Chapter 16. Inventories
Chapter 17. Nonprice Competition
Part IV. Wrapping Up
Chapter 18. What Have We Learned?
Appendix A. Manufacturing Interview
Appendix B. List of Variable Names
Notes
Bibliography
Index