Monetary Policy with Endogenous Firm Entry and Sticky Entry Costs

This paper builds a monetary model where firm entry is endogenous, thereby exposing a new channel for the transmission of monetary policy. Individuals have a choice between consuming or investing in new firms by financing a sunk entry cost. Monetary policy shocks affect the cost-benefit analysis of creating new firms, and generate persistent as well as hump-shaped responses of consumption, investment, output and new firm entry, as observed in the data. These results lie on an endogenous source of inertia and are obtained despite minimal nominal rigidities, as only entry costs are assumed to be sticky.