With fixed costs of price and quantity adjustment, output effects of inflation depend on the elasticity of the firm's marginal real revenue. If the elasticity always exceeds minus unity, then output decreases with inflation, while if the elasticity is always less than minus unity, then output...

A vast literature analyzes the real effects of price-adjustment costs assuming that quantity adjustments are costless. In this paper the authors analyze whether the presence of quantity-adjustments costs, which presumably are significant, change the traditional results on the impact of...