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Atkeson, Andrew (contributor); … - 2008 - Rev.

The Ramsey approach to policy analysis finds the best competitive equilibrium given available instruments but is silent about how to get there uniquely. Many ways of specifying monetary policy lead to indeterminacy. Sophisticated policies do not. They depend on the history of past actions and...

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Temporary price changes and the real effects of monetary policy

Kehoe, Patrick J. (contributor); … - 2008

In the data, a large fraction of price changes are temporary. We provide a simple menu cost model which explicitly includes a motive for temporary price changes. We show that this simple model can account for the main regularities concerning temporary and permanent price changes. We use the...

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Sales and the real effects of monetary policy

Kehoe, Patrick J. (contributor); … - 2007

In the data, a sizable fraction of price changes are temporary price reductions referred to as sales. Existing models include no role for sales. Hence, when confronted with data in which a large fraction of price changes are sales related, the models must either exclude sales from the data or...

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Sticky prices and sectoral real exchange rates

Kehoe, Patrick J. (contributor); … - 2007

theory for persistence have some modest support: in the data, the stickier is the price of a good the more persistent is its … real exchange rate, but the theory predicts much more variation in persistence than is in the data. The predictions of the … theory for volatiity fare less well: in the data, the stickier is the price of a good the smaller is its conditional variance …

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