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This paper presents a business cycle analysis of monetary policy shocks measured by disturbances to open market operations, i.e. the ratio of open market papers to non-borrowed reserves. We find empirical evidence for the usefulness of this policy measure, as it predicts significant declines in...
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We analyze price dispersion using panel data from a large price comparison site. We use past pricing behavior to … greater price adjustment costs result in greater price dispersion. Although the impact of price adjustment costs on price … dispersion became weaker over time, the causal effect of price adjustment costs on price dispersion is still present at the end …
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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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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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Serial correlation in macroeconomics is pervasive. Macroeconomic modellers find it impossible to model this feature without relying on serially correlated shocks. Using a behavioral macroeconomic model, I show that serial correlation in inflation and output can easily be explained in the context...
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implications for price discrimination, labor markets, and dynamic pricing. …
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Generalized Taylor Economy generates a hump shaped response function, whilst the Generalized Calvo does not. -- price …
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fully flexible and money is essential for trade. Our main result is that if the central bank pursues a long-run price path … long-run price path makes any stabilization attempt ineffective. …
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