Bils, Klenow and Malin (forthcoming) (BKM) constructed a measure of reset price inflation (i.e. the rate of change of all "desired" prices) for the US. They argue that the existing pricing models cannot explain the observed reset inflation and aggregate inflation. In this paper, I show that a...

I embed the pricing model proposed by Dixon and Kara (2011a, b) (i.e. a Generalized Taylor Economy (GTE)) into a state of the art instance of New Keynesian economics (e.g. Christiano, Eichenbaum and Evans (2005) and Smets and Wouters (2007)). The GTE is built to account for one of the most...

We estimate and compare two models, the Generalized Taylor Economy (GTE) and the Multiple Calvo model (MC) that have been built to model the distributions of contract lengths observed in the data. We compare the performances of these models to those of the standard models such as the Calvo and...