The Macroeconomic Effects of Infrequent Information With Adjustment Costs.

In the last decade, the potential macroeconomic effects of intermittent large adjustments in microeconomic variables such as prices, investment, consumption of durables or employment- a behaviour which may be justified by the presence of kinked adjustment costs- have been studied in models where economic agents continuously observe the optimal level of their decision variable. In this paper, we develop a simple model which introduces infrequent information in a kinked adjustment cost model by assuming that agents do not observe continuously the frictionless optimal level of the control variables.