Income dispersion and counter-cyclical markups
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This appendix provides the formal proof of Proposition 1, an analytic calculation showing that indivisible x-goods are not essential for our main results, and a numerical example showing that our results can also be obtained in a random coefficients discrete choice demand system like that of Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (1995), commonly used in the industrial organization literature. The appendix...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Monetary Economics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0304-3932
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2009.06.006