Boivin, Jean; Giannoni, Marc P.; Mihov, Ilian - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 1, pp. 350-84
This paper shows that the recent evidence that disaggregated prices are volatile does not necessarily challenge the hypothesis of price rigidity used in a large class of macroeconomic models. We document the effect of macroeconomic and sectoral disturbances by estimating a factor-augmented...