| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w0431
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 0431
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| Money and the Dispersion of Relative Prices |
| Zvi Hercowitz
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| 发表日期 | 1980
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| 出版年 | 1980
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | A price dispersion equation is tested with data from the German hyper-inflation. The equation is derived from a version of Lucas' (1973) and Barro's (1976) partial information-localized market models. In this extension, different excess demand elasticities across commodities imply a testable dispersion equation, in which the explanatory variable is the magnitude of the unperceived money growth. The testing of this hypothesis requires two preliminary steps. First, a price dispersion series is computed using an interesting set of data. It consists of monthly average wholesale prices of 68 commodities ranging from foods to metals, for the period of January, 1921 to July, 1923. The next step is the delicate one of measuring unperceived money growth. This estimation implies the postulation of an available information set and also a function relating the variables in this set to money creation. The function used was based on considerations related to government demand for revenue. The model receives support from the empirical analysis although it is evident that unincluded variables have important effects on price dispersion. |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w0431
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/557609
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