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heterogeneity in price stickiness, sector size, and input-output linkages. We calibrate a 341 sector version of the model to the … United States. Both theoretically and empirically, sectoral heterogeneity in price rigidity (i) generates sizable GDP …
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after uncertainty shocks. Price markups in contrast fall. This finding - inconsistent with the model - is corroborated by …
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and labour markets continuously clear. The disequilibrium dynamics – in the form of regime-dependent output and employment … fluctuations, wage and price adjustments-complicate (viz. enrich) the decision making problems faced by the fiscal and monetary …
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We document a novel role of heterogeneity in price rigidity: It strongly amplifies the capacity of idiosyncratic shocks … to drive aggregate fluctuations. Heterogeneity in price rigidity also completely changes the identity of sectors from … as large as those arising from an aggregate productivity shock. Heterogeneous price rigidity amplifies the aggregate …
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In a VAR model of the US, the response of the relative price of durables to a monetary contraction is either flat or …-sector New-Keynesian model. Here, the degree of overall durables price stickiness is not dramatically lower than that of …
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We use detailed micro data to document a causal response of local retail price to changes in house prices, with … elasticities of 15%-20% across housing booms and busts. Notably, these price responses are largest in zip codes with many … homeowners, and non-existent in zip codes with mostly renters. We provide evidence that these retail price responses are driven …
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During the Great Recession, despite the large fall in output, inflation did not fall much. This is known as the missing deflation puzzle. In this paper, we develop and estimate a New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model to provide an explanation for the puzzle. The new model...
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Using employer-employee panel data, we provide novel facts on how real wages and working hours within jobs responded to the UK's Great Recession. In contrast to previous studies, our data enables us to address the cyclical composition of jobs. We show that firms were able to respond to the Great...
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Business cycle indicators are important instruments for monitoring economic development. When employing indicators one usually relies on a sound statistical database. This paper deals with indicator development in a sparse data situation. Indicator building is merged with temporal...
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How costly are sovereign debt crises? In this paper we study output losses during sovereign default and debt renegotiation episodes since 1980. In contrast to previous work, we account for the severity of default and not only for its occurrence. Specifically, we distinguish between “hard”...
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