This paper studies the empirical relevance of temptation and self-control using household-level data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We estimate an infinite-horizon consumption-savings model that allows, but does not require, temptation and self-control in preferences. To help identify the...

Staggered price and staggered wage contracts are commonly viewed as similar mechanisms in generating persistent real effects of monetary shocks. In this paper, we distinguish the two mechanisms in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework. We show that, although the dynamic price...

Although CPI inflation and PPI inflation are both readily observable, the latter has received much less attention in the design of optimal monetary policy, despite the apparent difference in the cyclical behaviors of the two price indices. This paper constructs a sticky-price DSGE model, in...

This paper empirically estimates a balanced-growth consistent, dynamic, structural model of intertemporal consumption and asset pricing that allows for, but does not assume, the Gul-Pesendorfer preferences of temptation and self-control, using synthetic panel data constructed from the Consumer...

This paper proposes a unified theory to explain two observed patterns of international business cycle comovements: 1) The correlations in aggregate output and in consumption between OECD countries tend to be much higher than those between emerging market economies such as Latin America; and 2)...

Empirical studies reveal that monetary policy shocks generate long-lasting effects on real GDP, countercyclical real wages before World War II and procyclical real wages afterwards. In this paper, we construct a dynamic general equilibrium model to explain the observed output persistence and the...

The international welfare effects of a country's monetary policy shocks have been controversial in the new open economy macro (i.e., NOEM) literature. While a unilateral monetary expansion increases the production efficiency in each country, it affects the terms of trade in favor of one country...

This paper analyzes a two-country general equilibrium model with multiple stages of production and sticky prices. Working through the cross-country input-output relations and endogenous price stickiness, the model generates the observed patterns in international aggregate comovements following...

This paper re-examines the conventional wisdom on the equivalence of staggered-wage setting and staggered-price setting in generating persistent real effects of aggregate demand shocks in a dynamic general equilibrium framework with an input-output production structure. Under staggered-wage...