The frequency of price adjustment is a central topic of research in macroeconomics. Recently, there has been a surge in empirical research on the measures of this frequency. A consistent finding across all the studies is that there is significant heterogeneity in the frequency of price...

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In a small open economy, financial frictions in the tradable sector justify a policy intervention which in the short run reduces wages and increases the supply of labor to this sector. Such a policy leads to faster entrepreneurial wealth accumulation, and less resource misallocation and higher...

The crisis in the Euro area has partly been blamed on the inability of individual countries to devalue their currencies. In this paper we evaluate the extent to which fiscal instruments can be used to replicate the behavior of an exchange rate devaluation in a New Keynesian Open Economy...

While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and industries, more recent theories of firm heterogeneity point to the impact of trade on wage dispersion within occupations and industries. Using linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show...

Conventional wisdom suggests that the optimal policy response to rising income inequality is greater redistribution via higher marginal tax rates and more progressive tax schedules. In this paper we study an economy in which trade is associated with a costly entry into the foreign market, so...

Are quantitatively important real rigidities present in the data? The answer appears to depend on what data one looks at. Recent studies using price data underlying US CPI index provide evidence suggesting a limited role for real rigidities. Evidence from international prices, however, points...