0 the quality of being stiff, fixed, or impossible to bend: --
1 the quality of being impossible to change or persuade: --
2 the quality or characteristic of not permitting any change: --
We will make sure that federal law operates with high standards and common sense, not just bureaucratic rigidity (= not just lack of willingness to change by government officials ).
In contrast, downward price rigidity exacerbates the severity of recessionary conditions on real output.
However, the rigidity of the parameter-setting account is not matched by the same rigidity in the empirical patterns.
Recall that in general the notions of (absence of) partial rigidity and mild mixing are not related.
The rigidity of the social boundaries of mate selection are exemplified by the manner in which husbands and wives in this survey met each other.
An important question that motivated this investigation was whether wage or price rigidities make a valid case for policy activism.
Conjugacy and rigidity for nonpositively curved manifolds of higher rank.
As studies of modern less developed economies have shown, the "informal sector" possesses enormous economic dynamism, deriving mainly from its freedom from costly formal-sector rigidities.
Establishing whether rigidity holds for a property is not only central in order to distinguish necessary truth but also to recognise roles from concepts.
