Asking about prices : a new approach to understanding price stickiness / Alan S. Blinder, Elie R.D. Canetti, David E. Lebow, Jeremy B. Rudd.

Preface, xi -- Part I. On learning by asking, 1 -- Chapter 1. Why study price stickiness? Why This Way?, 3 -- Chapter 2. Antecedents, 16 -- Chapter 3. Research design, 47 -- Part II. The basic findings, 81 -- Chapter 4. Wouldn't it be nice to know ... ? the factual basis for theories of price stickiness, 83 -- Chapter 5. Basic results on the twelve theories, 107 -- Part III. Detailed findings on each theory, 127 -- Chapter 6. Nominal contracting, 129 -- Chapter 7. Implicit contracts, 149 -- Chapter 8. Judging quality by price, 165 -- Chapter 9. Psychological pricing points, 175 -- Chapter 10. Procyclical elasticity of demand, 186 -- Chapter 11. Cost-based pricing: lags from the chain of production, 197 -- Chapter 12. Constant marginal cost, 211 -- Chapter 13. Costs of adjusting prices, 226 -- Chapter 14. Hierarchy, 253 -- Chapter 15. Coordination failure, 260 -- Chapter 16. Inventories, 274 -- Chapter 17. Nonprice competition, 283 -- Part IV. Wrapping up, 293 -- Chapter 18. What have we learned?, 295 -- Appendix A. Manufacturing interview, 315 -- Appendix B. List of variable names, 337 -- Notes, 339 -- Bibliography, 361 -- Index, 371.