Pasten, Ernesto; Schoenle, Raphael; Weber, Michael - 2018 - This version: August 2018
We document a novel role of heterogeneity in price rigidity: It strongly amplifies the capacity of idiosyncratic shocks to drive aggregate fluctuations. Heterogeneity in price rigidity also completely changes the identity of sectors from which fluctuations originate. We show these results both...