It is common knowledge that the standard New Keynesian model is not able to generate a persistent response in output to temporary monetary shocks. We show that this shortcoming can be remedied in a simple and intuitively appealing way through the introduction of labor turnover costs (such as...

This paper explores the influence of wage and price staggering on monetary persistence. Weshow that, for plausible parameter values, wage and price staggering are complementary ingenerating monetary persistence. We do so by proposing the new measure of "quantitativeinertia," after discussing...

A major criticism against staggered nominal contracts is that they give rise to the so called"persistency puzzle" – although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for thestylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly asserted that, in the context of thenew Phillips curve...