Incluye bibliografías e índice.

I. Nominal rigidities: microeconomic evidence and macroeconomic implications ; 1. Inflation and price adjustment. a survey of findings from micro-data / Yoram Weiss ; 2. Individual inertia and aggregate dynamics / Andrew Caplin – II. Tools of analysis. mathematical theory of inventory control ; 3. The optimality of (S,s) policies in the dynamic inventory problem / Herbert Scarf ; 4. Quasi-variational inequalities and impulse control / Agnes Sulem ; 5. A simplified treatment of the theory of optimal regulation of Brownian motion / Avinash Dixit – III. Optimal pricing policies under inflation ; 6. Inflation and costs of price adjustment / Eytan Sheshinski and Yoram Weiss ; 7. Optimum pricing policy under stochastic inflation / Eytan Sheshinski and Yoram Weiss ; 8. staggered and synchronized price policies under inflation. the multi-product monopoly case / Eytan Sheshinski and Yoram Weiss – IV. Aggregation and the effects of money on aggregate output. ; 9. Menu costs and the neutrality of money / Andrew S. Caplin and Daniel F. Spulber ; 10. Dynamic (S,s) Economies / Ricardo J. Caballero and Eduardo M.R.A. Engel ; 11. State-dependent pricing and the dynamics of money and output / Andrew Caplin and John Leahy – V. Search and the welfare costs of inflation ; 12. Search, price setting, and inflation / Roland Benabou ; 13. Inflation and efficiency in search markets / Roland Benabou ; 14. Search, sticky prices, and inflation / Peter Diamond – VI. Pricing policies under inflation. the empirical evidence ; 15. Why are prices sticky? preliminary results from an interview study / Alan S. Blinder ; 16. The frequency of price adjustment. a study of newsstand prices of magazines / Stephen G. Cecchetti ; 17. The behavior of prices and inflation. an empirical analysis of disaggregated price data / Saul Lach and Daniel Tsiddon ; 18. inflation and relative prices. evidence from Argentina / Mariano Tommasi.