Does Money Illusion Matter?
Money illusion means that people behave differently when the same objective situation is represented in nominal or in real terms. To examine the behavioral impact of money illusion we studied the adjustment process of nominal prices after a fully anticipated negative nominal shock in an experimental setting with strategic complementarity. We show that seemingly innocuous differences in payoff presentation cause large behavioral differences. In particular, if the payoff information is presented to subjects in nominal terms, price stickiness and real effects are much more pronounced than when payoff information is presented in real terms. The driving force of differences in real outcomes is subjects’ expectation of higher nominal inertia in the nominal payoff condition. Due to strategic complementarity, these expectations induce subjects to adjust rather slowly to the shock.
Authors: | Fehr, Ernst ; Tyran, Jean-Robert |
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Institutions: | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät |
Subject: | : Money illusion | nominal inertia | sticky prices | non-neutrality of money |
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Extent: | application/pdf |
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Series: | IEW - Working Papers. - ISSN 1424-0459. |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | The text is part of a series IEW-working papers Number 012 |
Classification: | C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior ; E32 - Business Fluctuations; Cycles ; E52 - Monetary Policy (Targets, Instruments, and Effects) |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627898
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