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Over the past thirty years, a great deal of business cycle research has been based on purely real models that abstract from the presence of nominal rigidities, and so (at least implicitly) assume that the Phillips curve is vertical. In this paper, I show that such models are fragile, in the...
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which adjustment costs apply to the price level but not to the inflation rate. Formal hypothesis test detect instability in …
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undifferentiated final product. If the nominal prices of the differentiated goods are relatively sticky, then unexpected inflation … unexpected inflation abroad. The various versions of the model imply that the relative prices of less competitive goods move …
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The purpose of this paper is to construct a quantitative equilibrium model with price setting and use it to ask whether staggered price setting can generate persistent output fluctuations following monetary shocks. We construct a business cycle version of a standard sticky price model in which...
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Multi-sector sticky price models have surprising implications when durable goods have flexible prices. While in actual data the production of virtually all durables exhibits strong negative responses to monetary contractions, in dynamic general equilibrium models a monetary contraction causes...
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This paper shows that nominal price rigidity can arise from a failure to coordinate price changes. If a firm's desired price is increasing in others' prices, then the gains to the firm from adjusting its price after a nominal shock are greater if others adjust. This "strategic complementarity"...
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Can nominal contracts make a difference for the neutrality of money if these arise endogenously in general equilibrium? This paper utilizes aversion of Lucas's seminal equilibrium business cycle theory to address this question. However, we depart from Lucas in assuming that (1) agents have...
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This paper constructs a dynamic macroeconomic model with less- than-perfect price flexibility which has a real side consistent with Real Business Cycle Theory, augmented by investment adjustment costs, increasing returns to scale, and a new, flexible formalization of imperfect competition. A new...
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in which positive trend inflation causes firms' relative prices to decline automatically between price adjustments. In …, the effects of sectoral shocks, and the optimal rate of inflation …
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decreases with core inflation and varies non-monotonically with aggregate uncertainty, (ii) there is an asymmetry in the … response of output to aggregate demand expansions and contractions, which increases with core inflation and decreases with … data from 37 moderate-low inflation countries for the period 1960-1982, we find support for the basic implications of the …
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