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inflation is inertial. Microeconomic data indicate that firms change prices frequently. We formulate and estimate a model which … resolves this apparent micro - macro conflict. Our model is consistent with post-war U.S. evidence on inflation inertia even …
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A slanted-L curve is well-suited to represent the non-linearity of the celebrated Phillips curve. We show this using cross-country data of major industrialized economies since 2009, including the inflationary surge of the 2020s. At high unemployment rates, an increase in demand reduces...
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, consistent with the evidence, increases with inflation. Because we assume that firms sell multiple products and choose how many … inflation accelerator--a feedback loop between inflation and the fraction of price changes--which significantly increases the … slope of the Phillips curve during periods of high inflation. Applied to the U.S. time series, our model predicts that the …
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We study the propagation of monetary shocks in a sticky-price general-equilibrium economy where the firms' pricing strategy feature a complementarity with the decisions of other firms. In a dynamic equilibrium the firm's price-setting decisions depend on aggregates, which in turn depend on...
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This paper generates persistent effects of a monetary disturbance in the context of staggered price-setters. Previous research has been restricted by the CES functional form to price-setting rules that are constant markups over marginal costs. The present paper considers a translog form for...
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We consider a DSGE model in which firms follow one of four price-setting regimes: sticky prices, sticky-information, rule-of-thumb, or full-information flexible prices. The parameters of the model, including the fractions of each type of firm, are estimated by matching the moments of the...
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This paper develops a two-country monetary DSGE model in which households choose a portfolio of home and foreign equities, and a forward position in foreign exchange. Some goods prices are set without full information of the state. We show that temporarily sticky nominal goods prices can have...
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reduced to a tractable canonical system in domestic inflation and the output gap. We employ this framework to analyze the … macroeconomic implications of three alternative monetary policy regimes for the small open economy: domestic inflation targeting … exchange rate volatility that they entail. We also discuss a special case for which domestic inflation targeting constitutes …
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We provide theory and evidence that relative price shocks can cause aggregate inflation and act as aggregate supply … on U.S. core inflation while depressing U.S. real activity. In a two-sector monetary model with upstream and downstream … predictions. Motivated by post-COVID inflation in the U.S., a model experiment shows that a one-time relative price shock …
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expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in expected inflation directly lower firms' real … shocks and higher investment in response to government spending. Sticky discount rates imply that inflation has real effects … inflation expectations and permanently lowers the long-run inflation target in response to expansionary shocks, even when shocks …
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