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Kryvtsov and Midrigan (2008) study the behavior of inventories in an economy with menu costs, fixed ordering costs and the possibility of stock-outs. This paper extends their analysis to a richer setting that is capable of more closely accounting for the dynamics of the US business cycle. We...
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Recent New Keynesian models of macroeconomy view nominal cost rigidities, rather than nominal price rigidities, as the key feature that accounts for the observed persistence in output and inflation. Kryvtsov and Midrigan (2010a,b) reassess these conclusions by combining a theory based on nominal...
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Real rigidities that limit the responsiveness of real marginal cost to output are a key ingredient of sticky price models necessary to account for the dynamics of output and inflation. We argue here, in the spirit of Bils and Kahn (2000), that the behavior of marginal cost over the cycle is...
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While two strands of the literature suggest that PPI inflation, in addition to or instead of CPI inflation, should be a targeting variable in a monetary policy rule, the distinction between the two is only important when they do not co-move strongly. Our first contribution is to document that...
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This paper investigates the implications of endogenous trade participation for international business cycles, trade … traded goods in this model differ in their productivities, trade status and prices. At the aggregate level, quantitative … this result to the micro-level price stickiness present in my model but absent in existing models of endogenous trade …
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and wages as well as the gains from trade using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms. Firm-level prices … competition in input and product markets. Opening product markets up to trade reallocates market shares in product and labor … gains from trade. Trade has significantly larger effects on firms' markups than on their markdowns. Nevertheless, because of …
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Standard new trade models depict producers as heterogeneous in total factor productivity. In this paper, I adapt the … Eaton and Kortum (2002) model of international trade to incorporate tradable intermediate goods and producer heterogeneity … in value-added productivity. In equilibrium, this yields a positive relationship between the international trade …
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aggregate regression specification that is consistent with bilateral trade flows micro-founded by the gravity equation. This … for this prediction from annual trade flow data. The difference between elasticities estimated on the bilateral and …
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This paper provides a systematic, quantitative analysis of the short-run and long-run effects of various trade …
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This paper studies the effects of monetary policy shocks on firms' participation in exporting. We develop a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which heterogeneous firms make forward-looking decisions on whether to participate in the export market and prices are staggered...
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