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A theory of price adjustment under loss aversion

Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014

We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect … theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility … an otherwise standard dynamic neoclassical model of monopolistic competition. The resulting theory of price adjustment is …

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Optimal price indices for targeting inflation under incomplete markets

Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010

In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a twosector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...

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What measure of inflation should a developing country central bank target?

Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015

In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We analyze this result in the context of developing economies, where a large proportion of households are credit constrained...

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Labor turnover costs, workers' heterogeneity, and optimal monetary policy

Faia, Ester; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2009

We study the design of optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with labor turnover costs in which wages are set according to a right to manage bargaining where the firms' counterpart is given by currently employed workers. Our model captures well the salient features of European labor...

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Demand or supply? : price adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Balleer, Almut; Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; … - 2020

We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported negative impact of Covid-19 on current business is...

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Sequential bargaining in a new-Keynesian model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage negotiation

De Walque, Gregory; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri; … - 2009

We consider a model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage bargaining where hours worked are negotiated every period. The workers' bargaining power in the hours negotiation affects both unemployment volatility and inflation persistence. The closer to zero this parameter, (i) the more...

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The role of real wage rigidity and labor market frictions for unemployment and inflation dynamics

Christoffel, Kai (contributor); Linzert, Tobias (contributor) - 2005

In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions affect the transmission process of monetary policy. The...

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Asymmetric labor market institutions in the EMU and the volatility of inflation and unemployment differentials

Abbritti, Mirko; Müller, Andreas - 2012

How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...

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SAFE to update inflation expectations? : new survey evidence on euro area firms

Baumann, Ursel; Ferrando, Annalisa; Georgarakos, Dimitris; … - 2024

This paper provides new survey evidence on firms' inflation expectations in the euro area. Building on the ECB's Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE), we introduce consistent measurement of inflation expectations across countries and shed new light on the properties and causal...

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Information and the formation of inflation expectations by firms : evidence from a survey of Israeli firms

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Melnick, Rafi; Kutai, Ari - 2023

This study analyzes how firms form their inflation expectations during a regime change in monetary policy and a transition to a low-inflation environment. Using the Bank of Israel survey of firms, we document the basic properties of firms' inflation expectations and examine how Israeli firms...

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