Eusepi, Stefano; Hobijn, Bart; Tambalotti, Andrea - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2009
We construct a price index with weights on the prices of different PCE goods chosen to minimize the welfare costs of nominal distortions: a cost-of-nominal-distortions index (CONDI). We compute these weights in a multisector New Keynesian model with time-dependent price setting, calibrated using...