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Author:Sara-Zaror, Francisca 

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Inflation, Price Dispersion, and Welfare: The Role of Consumer Search

In standard macroeconomic models, the costs of inflation are tightly linked to the price dispersion of identical goods. Therefore, understanding how price dispersion empirically relates to inflation is crucial for welfare analysis. In this paper, I study the relationship between steady-state inflation and price dispersion for a cross section of U.S. retail products using scanner data. By comparing prices of items with the same barcode, my measure of relative price dispersion controls for product heterogeneity, overcoming an important challenge in the literature. I document a new fact: price ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2024-047

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