価か格かく硬こう直ちょく性せい

noun

price rigidity; price stickiness

Economics term referring to the resistance of prices to change despite shifts in supply and demand. Often discussed in macroeconomics.

• 価か格かく硬こう直ちょく性せいは、ケインズ経けい済ざい学がくの重じゅう要ような概がい念ねんの一ひとつです。

  Price rigidity is one of the key concepts in Keynesian economics.

• この市し場じょうでは価か格かく硬こう直ちょく性せいが観かん察さつされ、需じゅ要ようが減へっても価か格かくが下さがりにくい。

  Price stickiness is observed in this market, where prices are slow to fall even when demand decreases.